Inside XML

XML and Active Server Pages

Active Server Pages (ASP) is a Microsoft Internet server-side technology that lets you create Web documents on the fly; it runs on servers such as the Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS). In this case, I'll search db.mdb for the names of the students and return them in an XML document like this, using <document> as the document element and <student> for each student:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
    <student>
        Ann
    </student>
    <student>
        Mark
    </student>
    <student>
        Ed
    </student>
    <student>
        Frank
    </student>
    <student>
        Ted
    </student>
    <student>
        Mabel
    </student>
    <student>
        Ralph
    </student>
    <student>
        Tom
    </student>
</document>

The main trick in the .asp file is to make sure that your code creates an XML document because ...