Using database software to create HTML documents

[Andrzej Kowalski]

At 13:06 11/03/95 -0800, you wrote:
>
>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.   
>

I find it somewhat high-handed, if not offensive, for someone to suggest
that their product is the "needed" technology, that we should "get with the
future" and that other products, by implication, are in the dark ages.  It
is also incredibly presumptuous to suggest that I *need* someone's technology.  

As a database vendor, I have put forward our company's offerings on this
list from time to time in response to specific postings where I perceive our
offerings may be of assistance.  However, I certainly don't have the gall to
suggest that you should all buy Texpress tomorrow and go home because
Texpress is all you will ever need.

It should be noted that one of the purposes of this list is to exchange
information about various Web-based solutions for library-based
applications, including databases.  Anyone who goes on the record to say
that their product is the "needed" technology to the exclusion of other
technologies is either demonstrating a complete lack of knowledge about this
domain or is just being downright misleading.

Andrzej Kowalski

>On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Eric Rumsey wrote:
>
>> >On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, thom at indiana.edu wrote:
>> 
>> >           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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