[thelist] XML vs HTML for Content Management

[Mike King]

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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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