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.