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<h2>3.11. Dynamic Web Pages</h2>
<p>Virtuoso provides an extensible array or dynamic methods for creating
data driven web pages. Through runtime hosting Virtuoso can directly host, store
and drive:</p>
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<li>Natively - VSP and VSPX:</li>
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<p>Virtuoso Server Pages (VSP) is Virtuoso's specification for creating dynamic database driven Web
pages, these files have the extension ".vsp" and are identical in functionality to: ASP, PHP,
and JSP pages. A fundamental difference between VSP pages and others (PHP, ASP. and JSP pages)
is the fact that VSPs are specialized forms of Virtuoso Stored procedures which implies that
data is in-process rather than out-of-process, you do not have to complete a client-server
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Since VSP is essentially Virtuoso PL in a web page you can do anything that PL can from or part of
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is that you do not have to worry about making connections to the database or the overhead of RPC's
because the HTTP server is built into Virtuoso. When you write a VSP page the
connection is assumed since you are already in Virtuoso!
VSP is server script and is therefore executed in the server as it is encountered on the page. For this reason client (JavaScript) and server
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Page flow control is managed using FORMs. The state of the page is defined in form fields such as INPUT boxes and TEXTAREA boxes and then
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<p>Virtuoso Server Pages for XML (VSPX) is an XML based framework and
state-managed system similar to ASPX. Pages are written in XML to describe
templates of data-aware web-widgets. This massively reduces the code-effort
and avoids many bugs by providing the functionality for you, of which you specify
the data-source, be it XML, SQL or other, and which predefined control you want
it represented by. VSPX allows for custom-designed controls too. Since XML is a
key factor for VSPX so does XSLT for providing total separation between the
data, business logic and the layout on the web page.</p>
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