Real World XML

Single-Record Data Binding with the XML DSO

Starting in Internet Explorer 4, Microsoft has included an XML DSO expressly designed to be used with XML. This DSO is a little odd because it's not internal to Internet Explorer; instead, it's implemented as a Java applet. You can embed this applet in a page and create an XML DSO like this with the HTML <APPLET> element:

<APPLET 
    CODE="com.ms.xml.dso.XMLDSO.class"
    ID="IDNAME"
    WIDTH="0"
    HEIGHT="0"
    MAYSCRIPT="true">
    <PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="XMLPageURL">
</APPLET>

Here, you pass the URL of the XML document as a parameter to the XML DSO applet, using the <PARAM> element; you give this DSO a name with the <APPLET> ID attribute.

In the next example, I'll put the XML DSO to work, connecting it to ch08_03.xml ...