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Customizing Content with XML: Dynamic News Application, 9 of 16
The application builds semi-dynamic pages by combining pregenerated lists. The lists of items per category are pregenerated by the administrator (one XML file for each category), but pages that contain them are customized for each user. End-users choose categories such as Sports, Business, and Entertainment.
The semi-dynamic approach is useful when the data doesn't change very often and you want to give the end-user a relatively small number of choices. An application that offers more choices has to pregenerate more documents, and benefits degrade proportionally.
Figure 6-3 shows how semi-dynamic generation works. There are two phases:
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