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Dynamic Web pages are “built” at run-time, i.e., when the Web page is accessed through a Web browser, by dynamically extracting content from a data source and by using such content to fill in predefined page templates.
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Historically, hypertext navigation was meant as a way to move among “static” documents, i.e., Web pages whose HTML code includes both the content to be presented and the markup tags determining content rendition. Real-life Web applications however require the capability of serving to the users’ pages that dynamically publish content coming from one or more data sources. For example, the content of the home page of a news magazine is refreshed daily, by extracting the latest news from the news repository. This requirement goes beyond the original capabilities of the HTTP protocol, which is designed to exchange requests and resources between the browser and the server and not to govern the process by which the desired resource is built.
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Matera, M. (2018). Dynamic Web Pages. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_5017
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