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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] How to get contributions (was: just HTML??)


From: Hook
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] How to get contributions (was: just HTML??)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:19:11 +0800

Hector Facundo Arena wrote:
> I've decided that we'll use initially XML to store the contributions of
the
> people. The first thing we have to do is a CGI Perl script wich gets all
the
> data from an HTML form and converts it to XML.
>
> The basic header should contain:
>
> -Author's name
> -Author's email
> -Topic of the article
> -Date of last modification
>
> I know I'm missing a lot... but those are the most important.
>
> That will be the only method allowed to send articles, at least by now.
>
> Once we have the contribution on our server, we need to see what are we
going
> to do with that.... I'm not so sure about using MySQL... (for that, we can
> use something like PHP Nuke!). I think that the whole thing can be
mantained
> using Perl scripts for adding articles, searching, converting, making
> releases, etc.
>
> Believe me, this model will let us start fast and, if in the future we
decide
> to switch to another system like db it'll be easy to do.
>
> If anyone has good experience on CGI Perl scripts and wants to work on
this,
> please contact me.
>
> > To stop any chaos, you could allow people to submit
> > XML documents so long as they were written very
> > precisely, with the exact fields we specify in the
> > normal text submission (on the web site's submission
> > form) so a perl script could convert it.
> > But there's no way you could allow people to start
> > putting in their own customised tags and layout into
> > the document. As Hector put it, chaos would rein!
> >
> > Tom Chance

Hector, I can probably fit this in without too much trauma.

Paul




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