Presents your 
XML AND WEB SERVICES E-NEWSLETTER for April 5, 2004

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ENABLE DHTML PERSONALIZATION WITH XML AND DOM 
 
Designing a dynamic Web site that customizes itself to each unique user 
is one of the grand challenges of Web development, but a slick 
combination of DHTML, XML, and Document Object Model (DOM) can make it 
happen. By using the DOM's ability to program HTML pages in an 
object-oriented fashion, and enabling this approach with XML data 
islands, you can literally create a sophisticated "conditional" Web 
page that self-modifies based on certain user conditions and inputs. 
 
There are limitations to this approach, not the least of which is the 
fact that only the most recent versions of Internet Explorer and 
Netscape browsers support DOM and XML. Moreover, empowering the user to 
modify your Web page can prove a double-edged sword: The customized 
experience may generate both user traffic and loyalty, but you also 
relinquish hard control of the user experience. 
 
Learn how to use DOM, DHTML, and XML to build a user-driven Web site, 
and discover the differences between the old-fashioned approach and the 
dynamic approach. 
http://ct.com.com/click?q=df-1k~hQLElHjXGPsEwi_28JU7~xaBM 
 
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