{"id":181,"date":"2003-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/07\/15\/114\/"},"modified":"2003-07-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-14T22:00:00","slug":"114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2003\/07\/15\/114\/","title":{"rendered":"The Document is the Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xml.com\/pub\/a\/2003\/07\/09\/udell.html\">Jon Udell<\/a>: &#8222;When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it&#8217;s tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I&#8217;ve used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It&#8217;s handy that the &#8222;database&#8220; is a self-contained package that can be updated using any text editor, emailed, read directly from a file system, or served by any web server. But it&#8217;s awkward to share the work of updating with other people or to isolate and edit parts of the file as it grows. When we convert to a database-backed web application in order to solve these problems, we trade away the convenience of the file-oriented approach. Can we have our cake and eat it too? This month&#8217;s column explores the idea that a complete web application can be wrapped around an XHTML document, using XSLT for search, insert, and update functions.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Udell: &#8222;When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it&#8217;s tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I&#8217;ve used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It&#8217;s handy that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}