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What Does .xtp Stand For?

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Topic: What Does .xtp Stand For?

Posted By: Misty
Subject: What Does .xtp Stand For?
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 12:33am

I just got finished looking at http://www.internetseer.com/career/index.xtp - http://www.internetseer.com/career/index.xtp . I have never seen .xtp before. Does anyone know what .xtp stand for? What kind of programming language is it?

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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 2:14am

Extension: XTP
Program and/or Extension Function		Company
XTree Data File
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MIME Type	File Classification	Associated Links
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 3:48am

ummm ... huh ... Mart?

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 02 December 2004 at 4:10am

XTP is a couple of things - it's a multi-media transfer protocol (like tcp on steroids), but used in this context, it stands for an XML Transformer Page.

.xtp is a combination of Java Servelets, JSP's, and XML files and style sheets. There's another similar but different competing version of the technology called XSP - XML Server Pages. IIRC, the difference is that XTP uses XPath to create document subclasses. They both do the pre-compile thing for serverlets/beans/jsp's to provide the page framework, but data within the page can be handled on the fly through the XML file.

Works out to be a good way of combining precompiled page and server code with dynamic data.

One of the Apache projects plays with it a lot and there's a Java app server called Resin that's built around it.

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