| Sean Davis 2005-11-03, 7:55 am |
| On 11/3/05 3:46 AM, "Dermot Paikkos" <dermot@sciencephoto.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off apologies if this is OT but I am trying to get my head
> around something. In the near future I will work with a system that
> responds with:
> Content-type: text/xml (\n\n)
>
>
> The idea is to get statistical information from their database and
> use some GD::Graph (and possibly other packages) to represent the
> data.
>
> Currently information is passed around in flat XML files so this
> system will be more efficient.
>
> What I am not sure of is how to work with the system. Do I continue
> to use CGI and other xml packages (XML::Simple)? Is there something I
> should be looking at adding into the web server (apache2).
>
> At this time I don't have any test data to work with I am just trying
> to envisage how the systems will communicate so sorry if this appears
> vague.
XML is just text with structure, so you don't NEED special web tools to work
with it.
Sean
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