Re: [Bug-gnupedia] just HTML??

[Mike Warren]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:

> Easily! I'm not sure, but I have a feeling you can do this in a
> mySQL database anyway. I'll look into it.  And even if you couldn't,
> as the database will have to be parsed by a perl script, [..]

Here is precisely why I think a database for the article repository is
a Bad Thing. At some point, this repository will contain hundreds of
thousands of articles, with dozens of different classifier schemes
accessing it. Since the back-end shouldn't be doing any classification
of its own, there is no need to ``search'' or ``index'' the content of
the repository, eliminating the advantages of a database. However, you
*would* need to re-constitute the XML from the database for every
request by a classifier, significantly increasing the load on the
repository servers for no good reason at all.

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