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Objectives
34.1 Introduction
• Message forums
– Popular internet feature
– Discuss topics
– Exchange information
– Several major sites provide this service
• messages.yahoo.com/index.html
• web.eesite.com/forums
• groups.google.com
• Prerequisites
– Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 (IIS)
– Internet Explorer 6 (for XML and XSLT processing)
– MSXML 3.0 or higher
– Write permissions on forum folder
default.asp forums.xml
addForum.asp
forumASP.xml
formatting.xsl
addPost.asp
• Forum listing
– XML
– filename attribute
• Template forum
– Bare minimum elements of forum
– stylesheet tag for formatting
– forum tag
• Sample forum
– XML modified with several forums added
– XSLT used to transform XML
– Final XHTML page served to Internet Explorer
• Posting a message
– Procedure similar to creating new forum