XQuery Kick Start

Chapter 11. Generating XML and HTML Using XQuery

by Per Bothner

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Tools for Generating Web Pages

• A Photo Album Application

• Generating the Overview Page

• Generating the Picture Pages

• Running XQuery Programs as Servlets

• Running XQuery Programs from CGI Scripts

• Comparing XSLT and XQuery

• In Brief

Tools for Generating Web Pages

There are many tools for generating Web pages. Many of these are based on templates: You write an HTML page, but you can embed within it expressions that are calculated by the Web server. Here are some popular examples:

• JSP or JavaServer Pages (http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/) is a format in which Java expressions and commands are embedded in HTML pages. A JSP page is automatically translated into a special kind of Java class ...