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Basic VSP Programming

VS-B-2 Syntax of a Page

Overview of Virtuoso Server Pages (VSP) syntax

Preliminaries

• The pages with active content are named Virtuoso Server Pages, or VSP in short.
• These pages consist of Virtuoso PL and HTML code.
• The Virtuoso Web server executes only files (resources) with the ".vsp" extension.
• The VSP file can contain VSP blocks and HTML blocks
• The VSP block contains the PL code
  • The <?vsp marks the beginning of a VSP block.
  • The ?> marks the end of a VSP block.
• The HTML block is everything outside of a VSP block.
• The VSP shortcut in an HTML block is used to include value.
  • The <?= marks the beginning of VSP shortcut.
  • The ?> marks the end of a VSP shortcut.

Example

The demonstration page uses the <?= <?vsp markup and SQL expressions to generate html content from within a VSP loop.