[Ringing-lib-discussion] HTML search interface

[Martin B. <ma...@bo...>]

I've put up a rudimentary HTML front end to the database, at
  <http://methods.ringing.org/cgi-bin/simpleh.pl>

It's a fairly short script to display the form and turn the results into a 
query which is send to the XML database bit.  The resulting XML is turned 
into HTML by the stylesheet in medium.xsl .

The lead head stuff doesn't work yet.

Eventually I hope to have more sophisticated search criteria, and a choice 
of output formats.  So maybe you could list some methods in the format I've 
got at the moment, select check boxes next to some of them and click on a 
button to get more information on the ones you've selected.

About place notation.  I think it would be a good idea to store it in the 
database with dots between all changes, even crosses.  I think we should 
remove unnecessary dots when turning it into XML.  This would let us do 
stuff like searching on above/below place notation but without exposing the 
mess to the user.

Martin

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Martin Bright
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool