Autogenerating Web Documents
We have written a cgi-bin program called "Virtual Stats"
that generates HTML and VRML
documents on the fly.
Virtual Stats provides usage statistics of a selected directory
or file in the Web Server
as either an HTML table or a VRML 3D graph.
This entails extracting
the required information from the access log and sending
the HTML or VRML data to the standard output as it is being
generated.
Virtual Stats will be very useful for clic as it can
report the number of accesses of abstract/article/number/volume
against hour/day/month/year.
Moreover, the code can serve as a template for a program to
extract SGML data from the Journals Storage Database at the RSC and
make the HTML conversion via the utility being developed at Leeds.