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Hello,

We have commercial Webinator and are considering buying
Texis Webscript and running our whole site from it. (We
like Webinator a lot.)

Our site (www.mediacentral.com) will be serving up archives
of a dozen or so business magazines that our company
publishes.

These archives are in XML format, one file per article.
Currently we have a CGI-based system that uses Jade to
translate XML to HTML.

Clearly it would be nice to import these things into Texis
and serve them up from there.

On the Thunderstone web site I see SGML import mentioned
under "buzzword compliance", but no discussion of how to
do it in the Texis docs, under TIMPORT or anywhere else.

I haven't tried playing with TIMPORT in Vortex because the
docs say it's not implemented for Webinator Vortex.

Any pointers or general comments on Texis' suitability to
the task?

Thanks --



Wade Leftwich <wade@demographics.com>
American Demographics / Marketing Tools, a division of Cowles Business Media
tel 607-273-6343 fax 607-273-3196 http://www.demographics.com/

You can import XML into Texis with the timport utility. It involves
describing the tags you want it to read. The timport schema description
files for XML are pretty easy because XML always has a closing tag
unlike HTML.

As XML gets more popular we'll probably be adding support for direct DTD
snarfing by timport, but this feature is just a "nice-to-have" and not
required to import either SGML or XML.

Don't forget that Texis Web Script is fully capable of generating XML
as well. This will become increasingly important as the standard catches
on.

Thanks,
Thunderstone