Real World XML

XML and ASP

ASP is one of Microsoft's Internet server-side technologies 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 ch20_01.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 your code creates an XML document because the default document type is ...