Subject: RE: server side tools... From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 09:58:56 +1000 |
At 05:02 3/06/1999 , Shalperin wrote: | > From: "Pete Beazley" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > > Shalperin [shalperin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] | > > Thanks for the information, however we need to support both IIS | > > and NS servers. | > > In fact, we have to support NT and Unix from DB to browser, plus | > > multiple DBs. | > | > Two thoughts on supporting both NT and Unix: | > | > 1. Consider PHP for server-side scripting on Unix, which is | > similar to ASP | > on NT. See http://www.php.net/ for general PHP information and | > http://www.php.net/manual/ref.xml.php3 for XML support in PHP. | | Again, thanks. I was hoping not to have to write dual implementations beyond a | server API layer, but I might have to - or not use XSL at this time :( and | wait | for more tools to be written (no time to do this ourselves - hint, hint, we're | willing to pay...). | | > | > 2. Consider a distributed app, using Active Server Pages on | > the NT server as | > a remote XML module of sorts. | | <snip for brevity> | | A good idea, unfortunately our x-plat support is based on our clients' | configuration (they will maintain the servers), so we can't rely on them using | NT. | | We're just slicing ourselves open on this bleeding edge. ;) Have you come across Java "servlets"? These are cross-platform, and there are pre-built components such as Cocoon which support XML. We're just getting into them ourselves, so I can't really tell you much about them yet. But they look very, very promising. (Have a look at java.apache.org for some stuff.) J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Beyond the Idea" ACN 081 019 623 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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