WDVL: Practical XML for the Web - Page 16 - Introduction To Server-Side XML

This excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Practical XML for the Web" sets the scene for server-side XML, and shows what you can do with it, by way of a parallel example done in ASP, PHP, and JSP.
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