Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Storage and display

[Imran Ghory]

On 24 Jan 2001, at 5:46, Tom Chance wrote:

> In terms of storage, I agree with Paul Hook when he
> says:
> 
> "You want to index one article or a million, then you
> use a database.  You want to define structure within
> an article, then you use XML.  Both tools are useful."
> 
> It is just plain obvious that you would use a
> database. You could put all your XML formatting IN the
> database if you wanted. You can have all the fields
> you want, you can have all the formatting you want.
> And a database will be much faster.
> 
> In terms of display, the one thing I have against XML
> is compatibility... you should display it all in the
> end as pure normal HTML. It has all the formatting
> we'll need. For instance, I tried to look at a page
> using XML earlier in Netscape 4.6 and it wouldn't work
> at all!

As was suggested earlier XML->HTML conversion server end would 
almost certainly be provided.

Imran