Conversion of many documents to html

[Thomas Dowling]

>Robb Scholten writes:
>> I remember reading in a recent issue of InfoWorld that someone has come 

>> up with a webserver that outputs documents encoded in several proprietary 

>> markup languages without converting them first to HTML.  If it is  
>>reliable, 

>> this seems much more practical than converting documents into HTML (which 

>> almost always requires some human intervention at some point.)

>I think you are describing a standard feature of a WWW server.
>Lots of people have the impression that a WWW server can only
>deal with html, gif, and JPEG, but you can store anything
>on a WWW server and then create a link to it.  For example:

>This is a <A HREF="file.ps">postscript</a> document.

I gathered that the previous post mentioned something that converted docs to  
HTML on the fly.  The PostScript document here will still be in PostScript  
when it reaches the user.

We're looking at the Open Text Lattitude web server  
(http://www.opentext.com) which is supposed to combine this feature with  
full text searching.  They pride themselves on their ability to index and  
retrieve word processor documents in their native formats.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK