RE: [Nms-cgi-devel] WWWBoard2 - PLEASE RESPOND

[Wizard <wi...@ne...>]

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> Then the index looks like:
>=20
> 12+: 14 17 18

I'm not sure that if we have an expected XML hierarchy, how this is any =
different. It's one thing to have a format with unexpected input (i.e, =
true XML), but I don't see that parsing a defined XML format is any =
different than parsing an HTML format, except that the hierarchy is more =
determinate. The plus is that should we decide to later include full XML =
parsing, then the formats is already there. I think that this would ease =
the implementation of future enhancements such as database backends, =
XSLT, and document conversion.

>=20
> and contains a list of messages and the responses to it. The + =
indicates
> that the message is the head of a thread.
>=20
> A script would be provided to rebuild the index from the data files.
>=20
> In use, html pages would be generated for each thread and cached, =
either
> on request or on change.
>=20
> If the data set got very large then it could be extended by adding a
> threadhead: field to the data format and extending the index to store
> *all* the responses in that thread which would cut down the amount of
> data that would need to be read in any one go.

I'm not sure that I'm really grasping all of this (read 'my brain =
hurts'), but perhaps you could patch together some example files with =
comments, and I'll trying to get a better understanding. I'm thinking =
'singly-linked list', but it's just not working out in my head.
Thanks!
Grant M.