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Yehuda Shiran March 27, 2002
Structuring the Web Service Consumer
Tips: March 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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To consume a Web service, you need to write an HTML page. The other document you need to write is an XSL file for printing the data coming from the Web service. The HTML page can be written in less than 35 lines, and is divided into four parts:

  • HTML Section
  • Variable initialization section
  • The init() function
  • The onWSresult() function

The HTML section instantiates the webservice.htc behavior and takes care of the user interface, for both the inputs and the outputs. We instantiate the webservice.htc behavior in a DIV element, but it can be associated with the document's BODY tag as well. The webservice.htc behavior does not do any I/O by itself, so it doesn't matter which tag you associate it with. Here is the DIV statement:

<DIV ID="service" STYLE="behavior:url(webservice.htc)" 
  ONRESULT="onWSresult()"></DIV>
Learn more about consuming the StockQuote Web service from Column 105, Web Services, Part X: Consuming the StockQuote.


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