Active Server Pages allow for the easy ability to create dynamic views of your data on a web server, but you can also create "static" documents on the server. This can be particularly useful if you wish to distribute your information on CD or in virtually any document form. The following example will utilize our state info db. After reading the contents of the db instead of writing output to the browser html text is written to the server on a file with the .xml file extension. By placing appropriate XML tags around the Db output the XML document that is created on the server than can be read by the browser or any appropriate means. The current time (server time) is also added to show that all the XML documents is created dynamically

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More on Classes and XML
This article examines how to use VBScript classes to transform XML documents for use in a Web application. Before tackling this article, readers should have a solid understanding of classes and XML. To learn more about either of these subjects, be sure to check out the following links:

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Did you know that the ADO Recordset contains a Save method that can save the contents of a Recordset to an XML file? In fact, in an upcoming article on 4Guys this method will be discussed. One disadvantage of using this approach, though, is that the XML produced by the Recordset is anything but readable. Plus, there is a ton of information there, describing gobs of data for each column in the Recordset (its data type, precision, NULLability, maxlength, etc.). Additionally, when saving a Recordset to XML, the XML node names are archaic: each row's node name is z:row; the parent node is named rs:data.

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With the advent of the Web, many organizations have put large amounts of information in the form of HTML pages. These pages are tied up to a single presentation. Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows us to separate the content and the presentation. If the developers think of a migration of these HTML pages to XML mechanically -- trying to create well-formed documents out of the existing HTML documents, or cutting and pasting contents from HTML to the newly created XML files, or whatever -- that would be a pretty daunting task. This article shows how the tool HTML Tidy and a COM Wrapper can make our job simpler. In my article Server side use of MSXMLDOM with HTML, I showed how we can exploit the functionality of the Document Object Model (DOM) parser to work with HTML documents, provided they are well-formed. This article is an extension of the same idea. Here we shall discuss a sample conversion of the bookmark file from HTML to XML and then into a browser-neutral tree view.

This article will be helpful for sites where a lot of information is maintained as flat HTML pages. All these site's pages share some kind of similar structure and the site developers think that the content should be separated from the publishing elements in order to support rendering media other than a browser or in order to have more control over the rendering itself

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This solution presents several limitations both on the client and server side. We must use the POST method (because the GET can't manage this type of data), and we have no solutions to trigger a POST processing without using an HTML form. When we send data to the TargetURL, the browser loads this page as the new current page and we have an undesirable "context switch."
The ENCTYPE property defines the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) encoding for the form and must be set to "multipart/form-data" for file upload forms. When we set this property to "multipart/form-data" we obtain a different structure of the POST buffer (which is also more complex) and the Request ASP object can't access the form contents. Therefore, we can read the POST buffer using the Request.binaryRead method, but we can't use scripting languages to do this. The Request.binaryRead method returns a VTarray (which is a variant array of unsigned one byte characters) while scripting languages can manage only variant variables. We can resolve this problem only by using a specific, custom ASP component or ISAPI extension, such as CPSHOST.DLL. This behavior is by design.

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RSS files can be generated using Active Server Pages (ASP). It is OK for an RSS file to have a .asp suffix. In this example an RSS 0.91 file is generated, but it could easily be applied to other RSS versions. Similarly in this case the site stores its articles in a Microsoft Access database, but the database connection could be changed to reflect a Microsoft SQL Server database.

You can follow the example below or if you prefer you can download it in a text file here. You may get an XML error when you try and open the text file, just view source to get the code

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XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML can be used in many ways and one of which is 'data storage'. This is the one we will be exploring in this article. XML along with XSL ( Extensible Stylesheet Language ) can by used to present data on the web pages. XML provides the data and XSL allows us to present it the way we want. Remember though that not all browsers support XML on the client side, only Micrsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above support XML. XML can also be used to perform RPC ( Remote Procedure Call ). Actually this capability of XML to allow communication between distant applications is so strong that Microsoft has developed SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol ) specification which uses XML to allow communication between remote applications. XML can be used for a lot more purposes which I haven't mentioned here. Also keep in mind that Microsoft's future .NET platform will make use of XML even more than any tool does today. ASP+, ADO+ and others will use XML to define and present data. So if you are comfortable with XML today, it will help you in the near future when you will be getting yourself ready to develop applications in the revolutionary platform called Microsoft .NET.

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This is first of a series of 3 articles that I will write to illustrate the use of XML as Data Source. I have divided this tutorial into 3 chunks. After this tutorial, you will be able to manipulate and play with XML Data files in the same way as you do with MS Access. In addition to that, there are certain advantages of using XML, over MS Access. I introduce these advantages in the text, as we proceed on. The article has been organized in the increasing order of difficulty.

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