What Is A Stencil In Atl Server?

1.	What Is A Stencil In Atl Server?
Answer» A stencil is any text FILE that contains special tags understood by CStencil Class (used to parse a stencil and generate a text stream by replacing elements found within the stencil by output generated by an object implementing the ITagReplacer INTERFACE) or a derived class. A SRF is a stencil containing tags understood by CHtmlStencil. The stencil processor is a FEATURE which allows content generation based on the stencil SRF files. It allows separating the static PART of the response from dynamic content.

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A stencil is any text FILE that contains special tags understood by CStencil Class (used to parse a stencil and generate a text stream by replacing elements found within the stencil by output generated by an object implementing the ITagReplacer INTERFACE) or a derived class.
A SRF is a stencil containing tags understood by CHtmlStencil.
The stencil processor is a FEATURE which allows content generation based on the stencil SRF files.
It allows separating the static PART of the response from dynamic content.

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