Remarks: ASP Tools Component ProcessForm Method

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Remarks: ASP Tools Component ProcessForm Method

The template files can contain ASP scripts. A script between <% and %> delimiters is treated just like other text in the template and copied into the output file. If the output file is an ASP document, the script will run when the output file is accessed. Scripts in template files can also be put between special <%% and %%> delimiters, which cause the script to execute while Tools.ProcessForm is executing. Since these scripts are executed before the template data is saved in the output file, the results get saved in the output file, usually as standard text.

The scripts can use any of the ASP built-in objects for the page executing the ProcessForm method except the Response objects. Instead, the miniscripts have their own Response objects with implementations of Write and BinaryWrite that write to the output file instead of the Web server output stream.

If the InsertionPoint parameter does not exist, Tools.ProcessForm replaces the entire output file. If the InsertionPoint parameter exists, and does not begin with an asterisk (*), Tools.ProcessForm finds the InsertionPoint string in the output file and inserts the data immediately after it. If the InsertionPoint string begins with an asterisk (*), Tools.ProcessForm finds the InsertionPoint string in the output file and inserts the data immediately before it. If the InsertionPoint string exists, but is not found in the output file, the data is appended to the end of the file.

InsertionPoint is not supported in this release of Sun ONE ASP.