RE: [Linkbat-devel] DB or not DB, that is the question

[Hal F. G. <hgo...@pr...>]

How about storing the DATA in teXtML it's a native XML database

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From: lin...@li...
[mailto:lin...@li...] On Behalf Of James
Mohr
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 3:30 PM
To: lin...@li...
Subject: [Linkbat-devel] DB or not DB, that is the question


Hi All!

Well, I have been thinking about this and think that we will still need
to 
store the data is some way for dynamic access. One place is for the
questions 
and answers. We could *theoretically* create these pages in advance, but

would still need a method to access them randomly, plus be able to
select 
questions based on the current topic. So I see very little difference in

reading a DB to create the questions dynamically as compared to creating
some 
"artificial" database to store the pre-made pages so that we can access
them 
randomly. 


Also, an eventual goal is to have a search mechanism that not only goes 
through the tutorial pages, but also through the KUs. So I think that a 
storage and index mechanisms is unavoidable, so I think that we need to
go 
forward with the idea the KUs will be imported into a database.

However, I still think that a lot of the pages **could** be created on
the 
fly, such as the glossary terms and MoreInfo. Anyone got any comments
about 
all this?

Regards,

jim

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