OT: HTML queries (was Re: PDF datasheets)

Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sat Dec 27 16:11:23 CST 2008


Jochen Kunz wrote:

> Management System) like typo3, Joomla, Drupal, ... You can do it also
> with cvs, m4, sed / awk, make, ... or a XML processor, where you write
> XML files containing just the content and the XML processor generates
> (static) HTML... (AFAIK the NetBSD web site is generated this way.)

I tried that.  Down that path madness lies.  It's far better to just 
store the text in a database, possibly marked up in one of the "simple" 
markup languages like markdown, and serve it up as required.

Computers are good at stuff like that.  Humans aren't.

Gordon



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