Re: [Refdb-users] cannot add records!

[Matt P. <mat...@ut...>]

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> Matt Price writes:
> 
> There's a couple of options, actually:
> 
> - customize (or copy+edit) backend-html.c until it does what you
>   need. This is fairly easy, but you'll have to apply your patches to
>   each new release (and pray the patches *do* apply...)
> 
> - use refdbc to retrieve the datasets as db31x, teix, risx, or
>   xhtml. All of these XML output formats are suitable to be
>   transformed by a nice XSLT stylesheet to whatever format you desire,
>   including straight HTML.
> 
> - use the Perl client module and write your custom client in
>   Perl. This could use e.g. the risx output and mangle it until you
>   like the results. Perl should have an interface to libxslt, so you
>   could do the XML->HTML transformation transparently to the user.
> 
> If you go down any of these paths, I'm sure the readers of this list
> will be interested in the results.

welll..  I guess I need to figure out whether I most want to learn c, XSLT,
or Perl...!  I actually have an interim solution in PHP that I should
be able to throw together pretty quickly (stealing someone else's
code, and adapting it to the refdb db structure; this will be
mysql-specific, but should be readily adaptable to PostgreSQL with a
quick pattern-replace on the php code).  When it's more or
less working I'll let folks know.   

Then maybe later I can, like, hire someone to translate it into Perl
and use the PerlClient functions to interact directly with refdbc.  

best,
matt


> 
> hope this helps
> Markus
>