discuss: Re: TLDP Tech (a simple database suggestion)
Subject:
Re: TLDP Tech (a simple database suggestion)
From:
"G Ferguson / LDP" ####@####.####
Date:
7 Mar 2005 13:49:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20050307134930.0964A4156D@mail01.powweb.com>
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, David Horton wrote:
> It would be possible to extract information from this database using XSL
> Transforms and present the results as an HML page (or PDF or text or
> whatever.) While XSL is not the easiest to deal with I believe that
> creating a database with DocBook tags would be easier and quicker to
> implement than SQL and maintaining it would certainly have a lower
> learning curve than using SQL.
Perhaps, but I think in terms of long-term maintainability,
performance (parsing a *big* XML file via a DOM-based
or SAX parser can be abyssmal!), and ease of creating
various output forms...an SQL implementation would be
better suited for our needs.
> http://www.happy-monkey.net/docbook/tldp-hierarchy.xml
I could certainly create that easily enough with my perl-based
parser (which works with LinuxDoc and DocBook).
thanks for the info,
--
Greg Ferguson / LDP volunteer
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