Re: Parsing large amounts of data (200,000 entries) with XML?

From: Larry Serflaten (serflaten_at_usinternet.com)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:38:29 -0600

"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@127.0.0.1> wrote

> Encode the white-space as follows:
> <pre> </pre>
>
> The <pre> tag is used to make sure all white space is displayed as
> white space in all character sets. CRLF appear as CRLF, a tab is
> a tab, a blank space is " ". <g>
>
> I'd rather use the &#160; by specifying a default character set. But
> that means you're depending upon the browser to display the item,
> and if the browser is set to another character set, I'm not sure what
> will happen. I messed with the browser settings for making fonts
> smaller and forgot I changed it once, and reported someone's
> website as having a bug. She knew my browser setting was incorrect
> though and told me to fix my browser settings. I felt like a dummy
> reporting that her website was malfunctioning. I did learn one thing
> from it though. That whenever you set up a website, you should
> specify a default pitch size for your fonts, so people that play with
> their browser settings won't make your website look screwy ('cause
> I sure don't want to hear people yapping about my messy website
> that needs bigger fonts, when in actuality it's their browser settings
> causing the problems).
>
> I don't think it's the font that determines which character is displayed.
> Your statement that chr(194) is the A when inside an HTML file,
> seems odd. I can't duplicate that. Even with no character-set
> declaration within IE. You might want to check your character-set
> settings for IE. Click on View, then Encoding and see what's listed
> there. Mine is set for Auto-Select, Western European (Windows).
> That setting might change depending upon what the default charset
> is as defined in the <meta> tag in the <head> section.
>

Actually I can't get it to accept the windows font from the xsl file.
If I add an empty <head> section to the xsl file, then it adds a default
charset:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">

If I include the windows line, then that is included after the above, but
it will not produce an output as written. The file ends up empty.
I had added the windows line to the html file when I replied earlier
and that did fix the cells problem. Also the str variable in the routine
is properly filled (so I could save that to a file) but, as written, it
does not complete the task as it did at the start, I just get an empty file.

> That whenever you set up a website, you should specify a default
> pitch size for your fonts, ...

That has always bothered me about some sites. How can they know
what size I want the font to be at? I really have to move close to the
monitor for some sites that have locked fonts sizes set so small as to
be nearly un-readable. I *want* to be able to adjust the text settings,
(in fact I have a button set up for it on my toolbar, right beside the
printer icon) and those sites that lock their fonts to a specific size are
usually always way too small to be read comfortably! That could mean
I have a small monitor (17"), or I am using too large of dimensions for
the screen (1024 X 768), but that is what I want for development. Sure
menus are small, but for browsing I want to adjust the page text size....

Examples:
NY Times does it right:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/national/17SUSP.html

FoxNews does not: (They do use ample whitespace and that helps)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114290,00.html

<Oh well!>
LFS