Re: [Bug-gnupedia] just HTML??

[Christopher Mahan]

I agree there should be a standard XML template, and I agree the data should 
be stored in a database, with a script doing the db<->xml translation as 
needed.

----Original Message Follows----
From: Tom Chance <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] just HTML??
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:19:40 -0800 (PST)

> > So with XML open to the writers (which includes
> HTML as
> > a subset), and HTML needed for the browsers, all
> that is needed
> > is a conversion script.  If authors choose to use
> their own
> > XML schema, we could ask that they send in the
> script that
> > converts it to HTML.
> >
>
> I don't think so... if we accept any format in XML
> this would become a whole
> caos...

To stop any chaos, you could allow people to submit
XML documents so long as they were written very
precisely, with the exact fields we specify in the
normal text submission (on the web site's submission
form) so a perl script could convert it.
But there's no way you could allow people to start
putting in their own customised tags and layout into
the document. As Hector put it, chaos would rein!

Tom Chance

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