An improved method for creating dynamic web forms using APL

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The subject of this paper is "active" or "dynamic" web forms handled by Dyalog APL running on a web server. With "active" web forms, the HTML which specifies form controls is generated dynamically by a server program, in contrast to "static" web forms in which the HTML is fixed and does not vary from one page hit to the next. Also, I will be discussing only "thin client" approaches which minimize the amount of code which runs on the client machine. The method shown, which I call a "standard template" method, allows source pages to be maintained with visual tools such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and minimizes the amount of coding required when new forms are created in the same general format.