[thelist] How do they do that?

Chris Harrington chris at activeinterface.com
Tue Jun 4 22:39:01 CDT 2002


Hey Dan,

Churning out HTML is what I am doing with an XML/XSLT based CMS I just
developed. We had considered having sites managed by the application hit
the page generator directly (the performance of modern xml/xslt tools can
handle it), but the search engine issue was the main reason for having the
CMS publish static HTML.  Since I modeled sites as referenced and included
templates, the program must figure out which pages were affected by an edit
and republish these pages.

The other advantage of publishing static html is that the pages can be
published to many servers in a cluster/farm. And of course the performance
can't be beat, which gets to be an issue if you have many sites on one set
of servers.

Chris

At 02:46 AM 6/5/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>A great deal of large, corporate websites who blatantly have content
>management systems in place seem to now use
>flat files instead of the usual ?page=734327434&la=qy234y24 crap that
>screws up search engines.
>
>This may seem like a very niaive question but what sort of system are they
>using to create this?
>
>Does the CMS churn out flat html pages as soon as the edits are made or
>what??? really confused and the answer is
>probably really simple ;-)
>
>Cheers guys
>
>Dan
>
>
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Chris Harrington
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