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Adding a field to the XML nodetypeby jepri (Parson) |
on Jun 20, 2003 at 03:58 UTC ( [id://267451]=monkdiscuss: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Looking at the XML nodetype, it seems to me to be a great way to write a application frontend to the monastery. Since I've been teaching myself enlightenment 17 (which has a perl interface), I thought it would be cool to make a good looking frontend using that library. However the XML nodetype does not include a list of ids for the replies to the node being viewed. This was obliquely touched on in another node (which I have since lost th elink to), where someone suggested it just for root nodes. The explaination given there was that it would add extra load to the database. But it shoudn't be too much extra load, because the same query has to be performed when building a webpage for that node. If the webpage query pulled the node text of the children at the same time, then that should be possible to incorporate in the XML reply (multiple node tags). So.. can I have this feature please? It would allow us to point to perlmonks as an example of cutting edge internet-deployed XML client-server architecture (or whatever the phrase is today). If that doesn't tweak your interest, think of the nifty things a program could do with perlmonks nodes. ____________________
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