I have this issue
where I have content in a db, one page can display 20 rows of content for
example, but I'd like it to even out, for example;
20 rows EQ 56K, then
I'd like to display only 25K per page.
This is achievable
with READTEXT, I can specify how many bytes to read, but the problem is then
that the HTML mark-up could be cut off, or a word could be cut
of.
The only solution I
see there, is maybe to separate the content from the layout, i.e. text with no
mark-up at all and then use some kind of lay-out mask over the retrieved
text. Not sure how yet, or if possible at all.
So all in all
READTEXT would be the preferable solution, but it brings along some complicated
issues.
The next solution
would be to use DATALENGTH and keep reading rows until > 25K, which could
mean that the last row could contain 40K of text thus really not creating good
page separation/breaks anymore.
Another option I was
thinking about was to retrieve ALL content for one Subject/page and let
ColdFusion do the separation, i.e. use a regex to strip all markup and then set
the markers where the page break should be....
Hope any of this
makes sense? Any ideas, comments?
Taco
Fleur
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