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[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]
Items in the Web Store can be accessed remotely by using the industry-standard WebDAV protocol (RFC 2518). This protocol provides access not only to a resource itself, but also to an extensible set of associated properties. Additionally, the protocol defines protocol commands used to move, copy, delete, and make new collections of items (folders). The encoding format used to request and return properties across the network is the Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is defined in the World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation REC-xml-19980210.
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 ships with the MSXML COM component, a component containing an XML parser and related tools. The WebDAV protocol defines XML as the wire-transmission format for resource properties. You can use the MSXML COM component to create, parse, and manage both requests to and from the Web Store. The XMLHTTPRequest COM component integrates with MSXML COM objects and is used to manage the HTTP 1.1 protocol. Response data can easily be cast into HTML-formatted data by using the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformation capabilities of the MSXML component.
Due to current Internet security issues, using server-side script to manipulate the XMLHTTP object in an Active Server Page is not recommended; nor would it be efficient to have an ASP manipulate the XMLDOM object and render data by using XSL.
However, you can use XSL patterns in a Web Store HTML file to dynamically render the results. The following methods in the WebDAV specification are documented at this time: