The Adobe Spry framework has made Ajax easy and approachable for non-developers. It is, by far, one of the simplest ways to take data, load it via Ajax, and display it on a web page. As easy as Spry makes it, there are still times when the actual creation of the data may be a bit difficult. The person creating the website may not know how to create XML or how to write the SQL to get the data. But what if you could leverage your existing HTML knowledge to use the common table as your data source? Or any other simple HTML? The Spry HTML data set lets you create a data set from any structured HTML. To make it even easier, Dreamweaver provides a simple way to use Spry as this article demonstrates.

Note: Before starting, please be sure you have a website defined in Dreamweaver and then download the sample files that accompany this article. Unzip the files into a new folder. You can name this anything you want, but I used the name dwarticlehtml.

Requirements

In order to make the most of this article, you need the following software and files:

Dreamweaver CS4

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Sample files:

• html_dataset_sample.zip (ZIP, 8K)

Prerequisite knowledge

Basic HTML knowledge and familiarity with the Dreamweaver workspace, site management, and building websites.

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