On 03-May-01 Andrew Savory wrote:
On Wed, 02 May, 2001 at 15:24 -0700, David Freeman wrote:
XML != nice. HTML does the job fine.
Depends what you're doing. HTML is wonderful as the final dressing before it hits the user's web browser, but sucks for anything other than that. Being obsessive linux hackers, I'd expect us to massively overengineer a solution using XML and a publishing engine (AxKit if we're using Apache/Perl, Cocoon if we're using Java?) so that we can access the site using our browsers, phones, PDAs, sonic screwdrivers, divining rods...
Andrew.
I am not a great fan of perl as I dont like the idea of a write only language C++ is hard enough to read, and belive java is a very well designed language.
I just checked out AxKit, (been a long time since I last saw its web page) and I must say it looks very promising to me and posibly simplere to use than Cocoon, but having got a small bunch on this list I should like to ask who has used what. AxKit has a very rich design, and I must admit that I do like the perl XSL formating sysstem they have created.
I shall download it today.
PHP would do this job well and I see no reason not to use it if the PHP guys want to write this project as it is posible to do and will get some one a job as a PHP worker, however XML is the future of web server engines of that I am sure. PHP does support everything we need on this project.
My overall attitude is KISS ( Keep is Simple Stupid).
I also wish to point out that many of us havce jobs and so little time to work on this project. For this reason I think that libary system which is available open source Koala (or what ever it was called) is probably the best option.
Still PHP is fast and easy to hack a web page in and we do have enough knowlage and experiance for this language/
just my thoughts
Owen