What the Script Does

The single management script performs these tasks on every page request:

1. Reads the URL request — determines which section and which sub-page the user has requested by reading URL query string parameters.

2. Locates the XML content file — maps the request to the appropriate XML file in the correct section subdirectory.

3. Selects the correct XSL stylesheet — chooses between the home page stylesheet and the section page stylesheet based on the type of request.

4. Performs the transformation — invokes the server's XML parser and XSLT processor to transform the XML with the XSL and produce HTML output.

5. Sends the HTML to the browser — streams the resulting HTML page directly to the user's browser as a standard HTTP response.

Available Implementations

The complete script is available in six server-side languages, all included in the downloadable source code packages:

• ASP (VBScript) — primary implementation
• ASP.NET (C#) — .NET Framework implementation
• PHP — using the PHP XSL extension
• JSP — using Java's javax.xml.transform API
• Java Filter — servlet filter implementation
• ColdFusion — using <cfxml> and <cfxslt> tags