Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Detailed Proposal - Mk I

[Tom Chance]

Admittedly at first there isn't that big an advantage,
but what happens when you start wanting to database
it. Putting all the XML files into an SQL database
could be a big job, so why not start off with a
database, which also makes it a lot easier to edit the
layout of every article, 'cuz you could do it all at
once. And I'm sure we will alter the layout etc. a lot
in the future...

Tom Chance


--- Mike Warren <address@hidden> wrote: > Hector
Facundo Arena <address@hidden>
> writes:
> 
> > > This is EXACTLY where the MySQL/Perl Solution
> would be perfect.
> > > All the data would be stored in the Database,
> and all the
> > > presentation could all be handled by the perl
> when accessed.
> 
> > I agree, but we have not the resources for making
> it viable. I'm not
> > sure if we can host a MySQL server on the GNU
> servers.
> 
> I'm not convinced that a database is even needed
> initially; a directory
> of XML files which are the unique-IDs would work.
> Then, one can access
> the XML directly by doing:
> 
>  
>
http://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/data/unique-id-of-article.xml
> 
> and let the Web server do what it's good at: serving
> files. At some
> later date, it might be desirable to have an actual
> database, but I
> can't really see the advantage except for locking
> issues when writing
> to the files, but this could just be simply
> ``id-of-article.xml.lock''.
> 
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