Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 The STREAM Procedure—Processing SAS Server Pages
1.2 Guide to Reading This Book
On the surface, dynamic content generation is a simple concept. Web pages can be dynamically generated at the time of access by a user, and the generated output can be customized. That customization can be defined by a number of criteria, including, for example, the results of interaction with a user, a change in the underlying data sources, and so on.
With the release of SAS/IntrNet® software in 1997, the delivery of dynamically generated Web pages became a key feature of SAS software. The initial release of SAS/IntrNet software relied on the infrastructure provided by Base SAS software to generate Web content (for example, HTML pages). ...