Chapter 5 Dynamo Tags Tutorial

Overview of Dynamo Tags

Dynamo tags are extensions to the regular HTML tags that are used for creating Web documents. The main difference between Dynamo tags and HTML tags is the location from which the tags are processed. Dynamo tags are processed at the Web server while HTML tags are processed at the browser. Dynamo tags also provide extended Web site capabilities that are not available through the regular set of HTML tags. Normally, a scripting language such as DynaScript or JavaScript is required to gain the functionality that is provided with the Dynamo tags.

Dynamo tags appear as HTML comments, which allow you to use your favorite HTML editor to enter them. Once all Dynamo tags have been processed by the server, the resulting page is returned to the browser.

PowerDynamo tags have the following characteristics:

Each Dynamo tag begins with an HTML comment tag (<!--).
Each tag is closed with the end HTML comment tag (-->).
Dynamo tags are not case sensitive.
Some Dynamo tags have attributes that enable specific document and data manipulation.