OK, so my web of mail seams to have been distorted into a holy war before I got a good answer.
So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from formatting such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an excerise in normalisation.
Thanks
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On 05 Aug 2001 20:41:16 +0000, David Freeman wrote:
So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from
formatting
such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an excerise in normalisation.
Seperate content from formatting == Cocoon or AxKit. XML + XSLT.
Andrew.
On Sunday 05 August 2001 9:41 pm, David wrote:
OK, so my web of mail seams to have been distorted into a holy war before I got a good answer.
So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from formatting such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an excerise in normalisation.
You have my answer, reasons, and example. I apologise if it wasn't "good". If you want any more info, let me know - I'm no expert, but I know what works for me.
Yes, the example took 7 months to code, uses DBs, CSS and js as well as PHP, but these are all optional. In between all that, it lets me modify the site from a small number of files - which I think pretty much serves your purpose.
Rereading your initial mail, it suggests that you want to reformat prior to upload; I can't say I have any brilliant suggestions on how to do that, as I think the more normal method would be server-side modification or CSS.
Richard
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