Re: need help again.... for multilingual support

[Jim Hebert <nospam@thanx>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Bruno Boettcher wrote:

> first of all thanks a lot, i now have something that seems to work ;D
> 
> > - You could remove all the SSI stuff (except for current date/time, but
> >   is it really necessary?) and replace with adequate WML macros.
> ehm you mean  the includes? but if i do that i will have a lot of code
> duplication wouldn't i? Is this better style?? or do i once more have
> misunderstood something?

Well, remember, SSI still assembles the documents in the server -- it's
not like the client does the work. I guess the trade is simply with SSI
you store the peices and assemble them at request-time which means you
use a bit less disk space at the cost of some cpu time whereas with wml
you "pre-calculate" all those assemblies and just store static pages to
dumbly serve up. A bit more disk space used but now you can serve it off
of anywhere and not need SSI or the cpu time spent on it (which I admit,
is minor).

You'll only have code duplication in the end-product. The idea is you'd
still retain the elegance of having it in one spot while working on it,
the code that is currently SSI-included would be one of your wml source
files and you'd include it all over with wml's include directives.

jim

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