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  • chris
    #1

    Generating html - design issues

    Hello all -

    I am thinking through a system that needs to generate html as output
    and have a few ideas. I would be interested in opinons regarding the
    design.

    I don't want to just write every <tagname> out to a text file if I can
    help it. I am considering:

    1) generate html via the mechanism above and just use a stylesheet for
    formatting

    2) generate XML and format it using XSL which can (I think) be passed
    to the DOM object (MSXML3) for formatting as html. This is the
    solution I would most like to go with as it seems much more elegant.

    Any pointers or other advise is greatly appreciated.

    PS - I have vb6 available (no .NET yet).

    TIA
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    • J French
      #2
      Re: Generating html - design issues

      On 18 Dec 2003 17:50:06 -0800, newsgroups@boxf rog.com (chris) wrote:
      [color=blue]
      >Hello all -
      >
      >I am thinking through a system that needs to generate html as output
      >and have a few ideas. I would be interested in opinons regarding the
      >design.
      >
      >I don't want to just write every <tagname> out to a text file if I can
      >help it.[/color]

      Why not ?
      [color=blue]
      >I am considering:
      >
      >1) generate html via the mechanism above and just use a stylesheet for
      >formatting[/color]

      Hmm...
      [color=blue]
      >
      >2) generate XML and format it using XSL which can (I think) be passed
      >to the DOM object (MSXML3) for formatting as html. This is the
      >solution I would most like to go with as it seems much more elegant.[/color]

      So you get what something else generates
      [color=blue]
      >
      >Any pointers or other advise is greatly appreciated.[/color]

      Much depends on what you *really* want to do

      I suspect that you want to produce something that can be manually
      tweaked, and therefore want a styalized 'intermediate file'


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        • Charles Kincaid
          #3
          Re: Generating html - design issues

          newsgroups@boxf rog.com (chris) wrote in news:baa142a9.0 312181750.3689e 944
          @posting.google .com:
          [color=blue]
          > Hello all -[/color]
          <snip>[color=blue]
          > Any pointers or other advise is greatly appreciated.
          >
          > PS - I have vb6 available (no .NET yet).
          >
          > TIA[/color]

          OK.
          (1) If you have access to the HTML server install PHP and use that. If
          you can't do that and have to generate static HTML:

          (2) Write all the tags using whatever program that can write out text
          files (HTML files are just plain text, but you knew that). I had a
          friend that ran a buy/sell/trade web site called Universal Classifieds.
          He did not want to buy VB for me to write his software as he owned a copy
          SmartWare. We used the programmable database portion to write out all
          the HTML files. SmartWare COULD write out ASCII text files but it was
          not easy.

          (3) CCS and/or some type of HTML template system would be a big help. It
          will cut down the amount of HTML that you have to spit out.

          Go by http://www.fileware.com and get FTP sync. Well worth the modest
          price.

          --
          ATB

          Charles Kincaid

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            • Goldenpi
              #4
              Re: Generating html - design issues


              "chris" <newsgroups@box frog.com> wrote in message
              news:baa142a9.0 312181750.3689e 944@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
              > Hello all -
              >
              > I am thinking through a system that needs to generate html as output
              > and have a few ideas. I would be interested in opinons regarding the
              > design.
              >
              > I don't want to just write every <tagname> out to a text file if I can
              > help it. I am considering:[/color]

              Sounds like a perfect mechanism to me. Why not? HTML isn't a hard thing to
              automate. You have a header, a footer, and more or less anything you want in
              between with a few tags. Just set up a stack structure to make sure you dont
              leave any open tags.
              [color=blue]
              >
              > 1) generate html via the mechanism above and just use a stylesheet for
              > formatting[/color]

              Generate HTML via the method above and use no stylesheet. Sorry if im biased
              against stylesheets, but I still occasionally use text-mode browsers. Im a
              strict minimalist where HTML is concerned.
              [color=blue]
              >
              > 2) generate XML and format it using XSL which can (I think) be passed
              > to the DOM object (MSXML3) for formatting as html. This is the
              > solution I would most like to go with as it seems much more elegant.[/color]

              The reliability of a system decreases as its complexity increases. If your
              program can generate XML, it can generate HTML.
              [color=blue]
              >
              > Any pointers or other advise is greatly appreciated.
              >
              > PS - I have vb6 available (no .NET yet).
              >
              > TIA[/color]


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