Re: Create a web interface to query a XML database

Hi Stuart,

Thank you for your hint, TEI is very interesting. However, as I said,
my source data is in TBX format (which is the XML standard for
exchange between glossary-handling tools nowadays) and, if I stick to
XML, then I'm not planning to change that.

Regards, Manuel


2009/10/1 Stuart A. Yeates <syeates@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Manuel Souto Pico <m.soutopico@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to explore whether XSLT or any other XML-based language
>> (XQuery, I guess) would provide an alternative way to create an online
>> dictionary where the user can send queries to a database and receive
>> an HTML page with the results.
>>
>> Using a LAMP environment I can create a webpage in PHP that offers a
>> search box and which, after the query is submitted to the MySQL
>> database, generates an HTML page with the results. This[1] is a
>> rudimentary example so you can see straightaway what I mean (but I'm
>> sure it's clear enough without examples).
>
> If you want to use dictionaries with non-trivial structure, I
> recommend TEI XML
> http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/DI.html rather than
> SQL for storing your data.
>
> cheers
> stuart