William N. McKinney, wmckinney@vignette.com describes the project:
The Scripting News demo shows a real world application of XML technology
today. Using the new XML commands added to StoryServer's scripting
language, we are reading the XML source files from your site and parsing
and rendering the results to HTML.
The XML commands handle XML source documents from a static file, a string
(value returned from a database lookup), or a URL (used in the Scripting
news example).
Transformation commands perform logic and rendering based on the following
elements within the XML document Tag start, Tag body, Tag end. This maps
fairly closely with XSL functionality, that we are looking into
implementing in the product.
The rendered data can then be intermixed with other StoryServer components
and commands to present dynamic pages.
"The syndication application, demonstrated in this demo, is just one use of
the new XML services included with StoryServer 3.2.
