Questions & Answers

What is a dynamic page?

A dynamic page is a page, a part of its content can only be determined at the run time depending on many conditions such as user input, records in database, etc.

How is a dynamic page generated?

XML + XSL = HTML.

This process is called as XSLT (XSL Transformation) and done by an XSLT processor.

XML contains the data required by a dynamic Web page and XSL is its representation. HTML of a dynamic page is generated by an XSLT processor by merging XML and XSL.

Who does XSLT?

XSLT is done by an XSLT processor. There are several XSLT processors available like Xalan, Saxon, MSXML, etc.

How to instruct the Application Studio to generate a page as XSL?

There is no option or command to instruct the designer to generate a page as XSL. The designer decides to generate a page as XSL by checking the elements used in it. See A page is dynamic if....

Who provides XML?

XML should be provided by application programs written in Java, ASP, JSP, PHP, etc. Depending on the request they should provide data in XML format. Once they have produced the XML data they start with generating HTML of the page by utilizing an XSLT processor.

What is the role of MoreMotion AF in providing XML?

MoreMotion Application Framework provides many features such as Data Source Management, Dynamic Page Creation, Page Display Management, Resource Management, etc.

MoreMotion AF provides the XML data required for a dynamic page by managing the Data Sources used in it. See Data Sources.