discuss: Re: TLDP Tech (a simple database suggestion)
Subject:
Re: TLDP Tech (a simple database suggestion)
From:
"David Horton" ####@####.####
Date:
7 Mar 2005 14:19:16 -0000
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> Subject: Re: TLDP Tech (a simple database suggestion)
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> On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, David Horton wrote:
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> > 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,
>
Actually, I was thinking that the HTML or PDF output would be created
every so often (cron job or something) rather than doing it dynamically
each time someone visits the page.
Dave Horton
