[thelist] XML vs HTML for Content Management

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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But Mike

Don't you still have an app server overhead there..?

I realise that the ASP engine is pretty tightly bound into
IIS, and that simple includes are going to be better than
db calls, but if you're *really* worried about performance,
you're still losing time.

Cheers
Martin



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At 10:09 30/11/00 +0000, you wrote:

>On the other hand, there are many applications where you might *want*
>your site to build each page on demand, particularly where there is
>interaction between a user session and the site (say where you have
>personalisation happening, or on the fly UA tuning).

Not sure whether this is viable to Norman, but if you can tweak the CMS
correctly, you should be able to get it to throw out 'static' pages with
'live' content.
Here's what I mean...
Let's say, for example, you want every page to have todays date on it. Now
you don't want to go creating every page every day, so make the CMS throw
the pages out as ASP/PHP etc... and include the statement directly in the
template.
I've got this method working with search results pages, and personlisation
of pages using a cookie.

Cheers
mk
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