RE: [Bug-gnupedia] Storage and display

[Peteris Paikens]

> That's not true, because f an old browser tries to
> even look at a .xml file it will try and save it,
> because it doesn't recognise it!

  You have missed the point.
" The compatibility is that all HTML files are valid XML files, not vice
versa. "
 An app that knows only HTML will not understand XML. An app that knows XML
will be flexible for adding/changing tags, and will understand HTML .

 And what advantages the database would have over a filesystem for storing
5-50k chunks of text? Databases have a speed advantage for indexing,
sorting, filtering, and doing nice, complex SELECT's over them. But we need
to store text and/or binary files, and a couple different catalogues built
on them sometime later.

  And fields for large text are treated different from most other fields in
databases, anyway, and are not at all as efficient as those others, because
they are variable-sized, can be quite large, etc.