RE: [Refdb-users] Re: Refdb-users digest, Vol 1 #79 - 3 msgs

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Alan Anderson writes:
 > My biggest hurdle is that refdbc/refdbd both provide HTML output, but it is the ENTIRE page, not
 > just the information of interest.  The philosophy I took was to send and receive RIS to/from refdbc,
 > and let the CGI app handle the formatting and display (my OOP background encourages me to prefer
 > separation of data and display).
 > 

RefDB allows a limited amount of customization in that it uses
header/footer templates for the CGI output. You can customize those
without fiddling with the RefDB code itself. I'm afraid this is not
sufficient for your purposes, but I'd like to point this out anyway.

You should also keep in mind that refdbd uses a fairly simple internal
API to implement custom backends. If parsing the RIS output should be
cumbersome, it would be fairly easy to clone the RIS backend and have
it send back the data in whatever format you prefer.

 > Best of luck with your GUI.  I look forward to seeing it.  Hopefully, I'll have something to share
 > soon also (I could probably share what I have if you, or anyone else, is interested).
 > 

I'd be happy to see your results. Anything GUI will be greatly
appreciated.

regards,
Markus

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