Richard Herz a écrit :
>
> David Bovill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 29-Jan-01
>
> > As it's a kind of feature request. I'm posting it here to gauge the lists
> > reaction/support for this idea... it comes from some experiments with using
> > the existing htmlText, and recent explorations of XML and the use of style
> > sheets with database driven dynamic web sites.
>
> I'm experimenting with using XML and MC for a database. See details below.
>
> My request is to have MC's htmlText follow xml/xhtml requirements: all tags
> in lowercase (xhtml), all elements have end tag (xml/xhtml). Might also be
> nice to have option of including an "html:" prefix (e.g., <html:p>) in tags
> for identification of html tags and specification of their function by
> specifying the html namespace in the xml doc.
>
> Rich Herz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> Details: I'm in the process of converting a 6 MB, 6000 card HyperCard
> database to MC. Conversion of the HC stack directly to MC resulted in slow
> performance for search & display. Strategy currently is to keep the entire
> database in a text file; alternatively one could save database text in a
> stack as a custom property to help double-click opening and password
> protection. Records and field data are marked up as xml elements. One of
> the main xml elements of the file is specification of the MC stack (one
> card) in which the data is to be displayed (object name as element name,
> object properties as element attributes, scripts, if any, as sub elements).
> After the main database stack reads the database text file, it creates the
> display stack and its objects, loads the main <data> element into one
> variable, then displays selected records. Field data is saved as html (MC
> htmlText). Searching so far is just done with offset(), and is as fast as
> search & display in the original HC stack. Changes to the display stack are
> saved in the data file . Functionality is specified by scripts of the one
> main database stack, though scripts can be located in the display stack if
> desired.
> ---
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Thank's for your post, Richard :-)
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