Re: Create a web interface to query a XML database

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