Re: An XML Design Possibility Question

Sounds like a job for XSLT.  It's very common for XSLT to be used to
convert XML data into HTML.

http://www.peterRitchie.com/

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:44:34 -0700, Robert Dickson <robert-
lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Folks,
>
>  I was pondering a possibility for consideration and wondered if this
isn't that reasonable of an approach to this problem. First consider the
following XML Structure:
>
><data>
>  <book index="1">
>        <title>data</title>
>        <author>data</author>
>        <isbn>data</isbn>
>        <category>data</category>
>        <description>data</description>
>        <link>M</link>
>  </book>
>. . .
>  <book index="200">
>        <title>data</title>
>        <author>data</author>
>        <isbn>data</isbn>
>        <category>data</category>
>        <description>data</description>
>        <link>M</link>
>  </book>
></data>
>
>  Here's what I am pondering, to store a book list in an XML file then
reading it into say an Array and building a list based on <DL> list
markup. My question is it feasible to sort the order of the data by a
number of factors say Category, or Alphabetically by Author or perhaps
Title. Given the number of items this won't display on just one page but
would have to create a series of panels to display say 10 or 20 at a time
via selectable links say "1-10", "11-20", etc.
>
>  I know I can do this with a RDBMS easily. The question is what is a
decent approach to doing this with an XML file. This is just a pondering
on my part of having another technique to solve this fairly common problem.
>

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