Re: [Q] generating html from a database?

From: Reinoud van Leeuwen <reinoud_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: 1996/04/29
Message-ID: <31849400.12160706_at_news.xs4all.nl>#1/1


dedmunds_at_sfu.ca wrote:

>
>I'd like input on how easy/difficult it will be to create HTML documents
>from a relational database.
>
>For example, if one created a product database containing all the standard
>information (name, order number, product description, pricing, etc.), what
>would be the easiest method of producing a separate HTML document for each
>product in the database? Report generators seem to focus on producing
>WYSIWYG output rather than text files containing HTML markup commands.
>My current plan is to use a batch language (like REXX) to query the database
>and build up the output.
>
>I would be very interested in hearing how others have approached this
>problem for various databases. Are there industrial strength databases (DB/2,
>Oracle, SQLServer, Sybase, etc.) that have tools to facilitate this process?

Sybase has a product called Web.sql, and Microsoft has database support built in their Internet Information Server (via ODBC). These tools generate HTML pages that reflect the current database contents.

Reinoud Received on Mon Apr 29 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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