I am not sure the proper way of handling this, so I thought I would mention
the scenario and maybe someone could point me in the write direction.

The usage I have is basically, I would like a screen which is similar to a
mail program, where when new messages arrive, the listed message header
information updates dynamically, listing the new messages header.  Any
ideas?

Some time back, I was looking at MS XML SDK, which had an example of a page
that was able to be modified dynamically (the original XML file was read
into the browser, and any changes that occurred - like selecting a specific
item which modified the displayed data - occurred on the copy in memory).
Since a lot of this functionality, I believe was isolated to MS IE, I am not
sure if this same sort of thing is possible presently with another browser.

How is the best way of handling this from the server side/browser side?

Would the best thing be to just have a template page, that initially gets
fed data with a stylesheet, and have a javascript/metatag which requires
constant re-loads from the server, reprocessing the template/stylesheet?

I was thinking some of the XML::Stream stuff might be usable, but I am not
sure completely if that is the case.

Alternatively, I might use a JSP, page which gets updated with an active
message list constantly updated.

Would ASP, XPathScript, or XPS be better?

I figured some of this might be easier if I used something like a GTK module
to produce dynamic content, but I don't know if this is reasonable from a
browser standpoint.  Probably Java based applet is what I suspect would be
the best scenario, but then I don't see that having it in XML format does me
any good (if I have the data in memory already, it can be in whatever data
container that the java applet reads - we currently have an alternative
markup language which is not XML based)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Eric Bresie
ebresie@[...].net

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