iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

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ATP Web Page and Script Structure

This section describes the syntax for delimiting server-side JavaScript on a web page

and explains the structure of several sample scripts.

This section includes the following subsections:

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Web Page Structure on page 3-1

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Web Page Processing on page 3-2

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Meta Tag Used for MultiByte Support on page 3-2

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Script and HTML on page 3-3

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Server-Side Script Structure on page 3-4

Web Page Structure

ATP recognizes server-side HTML markup tags that follow Netscape LiveWire

conventions, so you can use Web authoring tools that support those specific server-side

tags.

A page that includes server-side JavaScript must have the extension .atp. To mark the

boundaries of a server-side script, use any of the following tags:

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<% %>

This option supports migration of Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP). You also

can use the % delimiter to print out the value of a variable as follows:

<%=variable %>

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` (backquote)

This option lets you embed a script in another tag, such as

<ahref="`bit of script`">

You can use the <server></server> syntax within a tag, but backquotes are

more readable. Backquotes that appear within server tags are ignored.

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\Q (escaped backquote)

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This option lets you use web authoring environments, such as Microsoft FrontPage,

which do not recognize the other script boundary declarations shown above.