Active Pages are created using TeleFinder's Server Parsed HTML (SPML) commands which includes the well-known NCSA/NetScape/Apache Server Side Include (SSI ) command set, plus a number of very powerful extended commands.
Active Page File Format
The document is parsed as an HTML document, with special commands embedded as comments. Commands are introduced by the pound sign (#) and followed by a list of named, or unnamed parameters.
For example:
<!-- #command param_name="param1" param="param2" ... -->
or,
<!-- #command "value1" "value2" ... -->
or simply a command by itself.
<!-- #command -->
The total size of a command and its parameter list is limited to 8192 bytes.
Quoting is necessary for parameters that contain embedded spaces, tabs, returns or other control characters.
Commands and parameters are case-sensitive
Commands cannot be embedded within other commands, but commands can be embedded within an HTML tag.
Sample pages can be found in Web Space/samples/.
Active Page Commands and Variables
These are the commands that you can use within Active Pages to add dynamic features to your web site.config
Active Page Performance Issues
SPML involves a small amount of parsing overhead, and should be used in place of Plug-In/CGI and external scripting systems whenever possible.TeleFinder's file caching speeds up SPML performance by retaining the SPML source in memory where it can be quickly parsed.
Active Page Setup
TeleFinder has built-in recognition of the ".spml" and ".spm" file extensions and will parse them as Active Pages automatically. Other file types can be interpreted as Active Pages as well, see "Request Handlers" for more information on assigning a handler to a file type.
The default page may have a ".spml" or ".spm" file extension. The file type search order is ".spml", ".html", ".spm" and finally ".htm." These types are combined with the Server's Default Page name.
TeleFinder's error pages must have the ".spml" file type.
