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Hi khippy! I've done the same sort of thing for pictures that we take on our digital camera. Sort of an online photo album.

The one thing that I would like to say is to not lock yourself into a technology to implement this. Do you want to use XML because you think that's the best way to approach this problem, or because you just want to learn something new? Either one is a fine reason, but I think it bears thinking about before you get yourself buried in implementation.

If you know exactly what you want to do and how it should look and you have an idea of how to do it with straight HTML and CGI.pm, then I would just go that route. There is definitely something to be said for choosing the right tool for the job.

~CS

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by khippy (Scribe) on Oct 19, 2001 at 17:25 UTC
    Hi CubicSpline,

    thank you for your answer. Indeed, you are right that I can write a cgi managing this, because it is so simple. That would also be the fastes way to get it done, too. So it seems to be the most wining solution, ...but, and now you are right, too, I'd like to enrich my capabilities, too.

    So I am intersted in learning XML, which I have often heard of, but don't know how to use. I was wondering, if this small project would be right to get it done and learn XML, too.


    --
    there are no silly questions
    killerhippy
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      Seems like a little overkill, but you might have good luck with AxKit. I'm planning to delve more deeply into it soon. (That link may not work at the moment. There's been a bit of domain trouble lately.)
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