The Data View Web Part is often under utilized but has vast capabilities in SharePoint, it can be used to perform the following:
Define a query and data source from which to retrieve the XML data. Data sources can be SharePoint lists or external databases such as Microsoft SQL Server.
Define the XSLT transformation that converts XML retrieved from the data source into HTML. FrontPage offers a WYSIWYG experience for editing these XSLT views, including live data preview.
More details at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_SP2003_ta/html/OfficeSharePointDDWRT.asp
posted @ Saturday, October 29, 2005 6:51 PM