Writing Stored Procedures for Microsoft SQL Server

XML and HTML

HTML has made the World Wide Web the world's biggest information library—but XML—the new baby by comparison is fast becoming the world's commercial and financial heart on the Web. As this change comes into being, the Web is becoming much more than just a static library. Increasingly, users accessing the Web aren't just flicking through pages like a book. Instead, pages are being generated dynamically as users open the book. This data can come from any information that is made available to the Web server. It can be anything from a database monitoring the actual Web server, providing information about who visits the site and where they go, small internal company information intranets, right up to the company enterprise databases. This ...