Re: Fast processing of XML files for CGI

Two strategies spring to mind:

Process Files asynchronously - Use a background process to do the work and produce a static HTML file that can be served to a number of clients. This adopts a write once read many strategy.

Concatenate and transform - Concatenate the XML files into one large XML file and use XSLT to transform the XML into an HTML page.

In both cases I am assuming that you are looking for the HTML page to be refreshed regularly (e.g. every 30 seconds or so) and be viewed by a number of people (the help desk operatives).

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Re: Re: Fast processing of XML files for CGI by inman (Curate) on Dec 08, 2003 at 11:22 UTC
The following code relates to the earlier post and shows the processing of a concatenated XML file using an XSLT. This has been tested using a Xalan on the command line but this is available as XML::Xalan. Example of concatenated XML reports: Read more... (2 kB) Example of XSLT to do the conversion: Read more... (2 kB)	[reply] [d/l] [select]