Building Tables

The emerging theme of this chapter seems to reiterate the fact that XMLC supports an incredible amount of flexibility and variation of implementation strategies, while still delivering on its promise of supporting highly maintainable Web presentations.

In this section, we're going to focus on perhaps the most common chore of all, updating an HTML table. We'll do this by looking at two cases representing different levels of dynamic manipulation. In the first example, we will perform an in-place content update of a statically-formatted table. In the other, we'll add new rows and content to that same table.

Static Tables with Dynamic Content

Let's address the ShowFloor page that will display information about a single vendor to the ...

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