| | It has been done before, yes. This method is often used to get a total seperation of content from presentation. You can transform the data server side, which grants you a whole variety of options. Let's say you store your content in an XML state. Now, you retrieve it using a server side langauge, and can transform it into HTML. But, you can also transform it into, say, a PDF file. Or a Word file. Or plain text. All of this is on the fly, which means that: 1) You won't actually have several different versions stored on your server 2) If you make a change to the XML data, the change will take place in the different versions that the server creates. The downside to this method is that the server has to transform the data on each request, but with a decent server this shouldn't be an issue at all. |
