Re: Faster HTML Output.

["Bradley V. Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would tend to agree with Aaron here.

With CGI you're going from DB to HTML.  Throw XML in the mix and you're
doing DB to XML to HTML, another added step.

The root of the problem is the user wants what they want.  If they want
that, then it's going to take the time it does.  I do see how you could
change your application to not use a temp file, though.  Instead of using
SQL INTO to create a temp file, use the SQL and read from the result set
directly.

The time it takes to render 200+ pages of HTML dynamically most likely will
not be able to be made any faster.

Bradley V. Stone
BVSTools - www.bvstools.com
eRPG SDK - www.erpgsdk.com

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:web400-bounces+bvstone=bvstools.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> albartell
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 8:46 PM
> To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Faster HTML Output.
>
>
> > Sending XML instead of HTML will certainly improve your
> throughput, but it
> still needs to be rendered to a readable format somewhere.
>
> How exactly is XML vs. HTML improving throughput?  It sounds like you are
> more referencing the bloat of using tables for formatting vs.
> CSS.  I would
> have to guess that CSS would allow for a smaller document than XML - but I
> suppose that depends how bloated the XML tags are.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Pete Hall
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:25 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Faster HTML Output.
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> Sending XML instead of HTML will certainly improve your throughput, but it
> still needs to be rendered to a readable format somewhere. I have
> a captive
> IE shop (good and bad in that) where I can rely on msxml3 to give me
> consistent rendering, so I us client side rendering. It offloads a lot of
> processing from the server side, and is certainly friendlier to network
> bandwidth. Still can take a while to render a document with xslt
> though, and
> that's entirely dependent on client horsepower. BTW, if you go this route,
> use attributes instead of nested elements where possible.
> It makes for a much smaller datastream, and do NOT worry about indenting
> nested elements. That's a big-time throughput hog with large documents.
>
> Pete Hall
> pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://pbhall.us
>
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