[thelist] HTML embeded in database MySQL/PHP

[Robert Gormley]

Christian Heilmann wrote:

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>>I have to ask - why would storing HTML in a database be a bad idea?
>>Isn't that what most content management systems do?
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>Bad ones, yes. 
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That's a little generalised. Presentational HTML, sure.... but I don't
see why a fragment such as

<p>My paragraph, including information sourced from <cite>this funky
book</cite> to lend authority.</p>

should not reside within the CMS. It is after all, content, semantic.

Robert