Dumb question

[noGuru]

I know this is a dumb question, but one has to start somewhere. I have used Interdev and IIS/PWS to code and execute vbscript(asp), but what is normally used to code XML? Also Interdev? How do you save a file, as .xml or as .asp? And will my IIS execute the pages automatically?

Thanks for all your responses!!!

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XML - EXTENSIBLE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE Is not a
Scripting language like VbScript or Jscript !

IT is a Language to store Well defined data in a hierarchical Fashion.

example to store a Person's contact Information.

<contacts>
 <person>
   <name>Johny</name>
   <age>22</age>
   <email>[email protected]</email>
  </person>
 <person>
   <name>Martin</name>
   <age>26</age>
   <email>[email protected]</email>
  </person>
</contacts>

You can see that it just describes the data it stores and
in no way gives information on how to display the Info.

>> but what is normally used to code XML?
A simple notepad will do

For Presenting the Data in a specific style you have to use other Programming Languages.

So In order to make it easy for programmers to access
data stored in Xml files there are components like
Microsoft XML Parser (latest is MSXML 3.0)

Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/xml/default.asp
for more Information.

>> How do you save a file, as .xml or as .asp?
It can Have any extension Provided the server know it's mime type is text/xml

>>And will my IIS execute the pages automatically?
Only if you do Server side Programming !