Using database software to create HTML documents

[Robert H. Terry]

Hmmmm, whom was it that said HTML code will be the speghetti GoTos of the 
nineties ?  Oh. yeah, that computer science librarian with the library 
tool for generating HTML from the database.  Come on people, get with the 
future.  MOREplus is the needed technology and it is high time you all 
take a serious look at its functionality.   

On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Eric Rumsey wrote:

> >On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, thom at indiana.edu wrote:
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> >           What you really want to do is realize that you are not really
> >interested in managing the _page_ so much as the the data element within
> >the web page such as the the url and the associated description,
> 
> >Every time you create a single html page you are creating a potential
> >nightmare for the future.
> 
> Voila! ... my sentiments exactly - It's so easy to create web pages, but
> maintaining them is another thing - especially it gets messy trying to
> maintain lists *with annotations* - it's hard enough to keep up a list
> without any annotations, just making sure links are valid, but then if you
> have an annotation, you not only have to check the link, but you also have
> to check to make sure your annotation is still accurate!
> 
> Eric Rumsey, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
> University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242
> <eric-rumsey at uiowa.edu>
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