To create a file that your IE browser will recognise as XML,
simply place these two lines at the top of your ASP page:
IE will view it as an XML document using it's built in stylesheet (IE 5+)
Response.ContentType = "text/xml" Response.Write ""
Response.Write "<?xml version='1.0' ?>"
'----------------------------------------------------------
'Put your ASP code here now makes the XML document
'----------------------------------------------------------
Response.Write "<WEBSITES>"
Response.Write " <WEBSITE>"
Response.Write " <URL>15seconds.com</URL>"
Response.Write " </WEBSITE>"
Response.Write " <WEBSITE>"
Response.Write " <URL>internet.com</URL>"
Response.Write " </WEBSITE>"
Response.Write "</WEBSITES>"
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Doing a hard refresh every time
the client needs more information makes the interface difficult for a user to
use in complex applications and causes unnecessary strain on the network because
frequently the same data is being sent to the client repeatedly. Dennis Hurst examines the problem and provides a XML/ASP solution.
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SQL Server is packed with features for retrieving XML documents. Steven
Woods offers a demonstration of extending a SQL Query via the RAW, AUTO,
and EXPLICIT modes to illustrate the functionality available. The article
then discusses the concept of templates, which allow the creation of
dynamic parameter-based XML documents, and how templates can be executed
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The XML data island in IE 5.x provides a simple and convenient way to
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Using traditional ASP, Web servers are forced to do all the work in creating a page. This includes getting the data, formatting the output, and sending it to the client. With XML and XSL, the server only needs to get the data in XML format and send that and the XSL to the client. The client will then use its CPU power to transform the XML into HTML using the XSL style sheet. This approach will allow your Web servers to handle many more concurrent users.
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In this article Niall Ginsbourg takes a look at using Microsoft's XML Parser, along with its in-built XPath query processor, to create an In-Memory Database that provides superior searching operations over an equivalent SQL Server solution.
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Learn how to successfully apply an IMDB to large volumes of data and still get phenomenal searching speeds that outperform a dedicated SQL Server database. [Read This Article][Top]
