Data Driven Web Site

[Joe Burkert]

I want to create a local news data driven web site.

Question:
Generally, are the html tags within the database (along with the news items)

or should I use the <pre> tag (which means I can not have 'bold' ect in the
news)
or is there another way.

Thanks.

Joe.

[Russell Jones]

My advice is, store the news items in the database as XML and write
parameterized XSLT templates to transform the data into formatted HTML. That
way, when your formatting needs change (and they always do) all you'll have
to do is modify the XSLT parameters, or, at worst, the templates.

"Joe Burkert" <burkertjoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I want to create a local news data driven web site.
>
> Question:
> Generally, are the html tags within the database (along with the news
items)
>
> or should I use the <pre> tag (which means I can not have 'bold' ect in
the
> news)
> or is there another way.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe.