Re: [xml-dev] Fwd: Xml doubts please reply

[Michael Ludwig <mlu@as-guides.com>]

SHAJI A schrieb:

> we are downloding these literatures from some external websites...all
> the literatures are in the same format
> ..i am sending the litertures record format(attachement)

> can we convert it  into xml directly?

You need to find or write a parser for the format you get the literature
data in. Then, you can convert it to XML using an API such as DOM or
XOM to create XML documents and then write these out.

> i need to include varoius features like search by author,search title,
> search by publication year etc:-

You could try a search engine such as Apache Solr, which does not
require XML data.

If you want XML, you can try an XML server such as eXist, which uses the
same search library under the hood as Solr.

> so what we noramlly doing is first store all the literature details to
> datbase(it includes foolwing information like author(Au), title(TI),
> abstract( Ab) ,published year etc-:

Just guessing, but database probably means SQL? You could also stay
there - might be easiest. Or couple that with Apache Solr.

-- 
Michael Ludwig