Hey all, Long-ago webhead here who hasn't touched much of anything since Javascript was a dirty word and PHP was the be-all and end-all (but I've managed a bit of Python experience) I just have a few questions about whether or not Django was right for a project I'm thinking of and hopefully getting a few insights from people who know much more than me.
Basically, the website is going to centre around user-generated content. The plan right now is for the users to be able to create and edit an .XML file (or a series of them?) and eventually 'publish' them for public consumption. They're essentially slideshows, the XML describing a combination of pictures and words in a particular 'screen', with each chapter in a publication having a number of screens, etcetera. It's my understanding that the editting and creation of the XML files is fairly straightforward and best done with Javascript, using only Django / Python to save the XML (and depending on how brave I am, possibly also using AJAX to parse the XML in 'published' mode so that the presentation is done in real time without having to reload the page for every new screen) I know this is a Django channel, but does that all sound right? But what would be the best way to store this XML? Each user could have a number of XML files. Is it better to have the database describe the relation between these files and their relative position, or to store the XML in the database itself? I'm a bit loathe to fill up a database with blobs, but is this the norm these days? Is there a particular database that's suited for this? Thanks for your replies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
