ANN: CGI tutorial online

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Apr 27 22:22:53 EDT 2004


On 4/27/04 6:47 PM, Jim wrote:

> 
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:00 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote:
> 
>> Just as an additional note : apart from using stacks
>> as libraries, the cgi-engine lets you use the database
>> and XML libraries like in the IDE, which means you can
>> get and even update data stored in SQL databases, or
>> even parse XML-RPC calls if you are interested.
>> And all that in our friendly Transcript programming
>> language.
> 
> 
> Don't plan on using the built-in XML routines. Only a couple of them 
> work. Most of them are broken in the CGI engine. Someone else reported 
> that the database routines are broken, too.

Yes, these are supposed to get built into the engine but it hasn't 
happened yet. Has anyone tried loading an external, such as revxml, when 
a library cgi stack opens? I can't see why it wouldn't work.

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