Overview of Server-Side XML Processing
As you saw in Chapter 9, “Server-Side Transformations Using ASP,” server-side XML processing usually revolves around applying style sheets to convert XML data into presentation form. Typically, you load your XML data from a file or a database, and then you apply a style sheet to convert the data into HTML. You also can apply style sheets to customize a Web site for a particular user. When you create a customizable Web site, you typically store the Web content as XML data, and then use different style sheets to create different views of the Web content.
XML is also extremely useful for exchanging data between applications. In fact, many businesses use XML to exchange data with other businesses (that is, ...
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