Platinum Edition Using XHTML™, XML, and Java™ 2

Using SSI in XHTML

Now that your server (or talked your system administrator into doing it for you), you're ready to learn how to use SSI. What you've done already is by far the hardest part. From here on, you simply need to find the syntax in your particular server's documentation and try things out.

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Of special interest at this point is the one thing that all SSI implementations have in common: All SSI commands are embedded within regular XHTML comments.

Having embedded commands makes it easy to implement SSI while still making the XHTML portable. A server that doesn't understand SSI passes the commands to the browser, and the browser ignores them because they're formatted as comments. A server that does understand SSI, however, does not ...