<handlers> Element

<handlers> Element

handler defines a HandlerElement to intercept requests using the engine.

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
defaultTemplate	default template number; this is the template number of the home page
name	name for this handler, must be unique across all handlers
path	regular expression to determine whether the handler intercepts the request or not; the value tested against the regular expression is the local path of the request, without the IIS application root and without the query string. Example: if the URI requested is http://www.monwebsite.com/myapplication/myhandler.ashx and the application's path in IIS is /myapplication, the tested value is "myhandler.ashx".

Attribute

Description

defaultTemplate

default template number; this is the template number of the home page

name

name for this handler, must be unique across all handlers

path

regular expression to determine whether the handler intercepts the request or not; the value tested against the regular expression is the local path of the request, without the IIS application root and without the query string.

Example: if the URI requested is http://www.monwebsite.com/myapplication/myhandler.ashx and the application's path in IIS is /myapplication, the tested value is "myhandler.ashx".

Child elements

Element	Description
actions	List all actions to be executed by this handler
extractors	List all extractors to be executed by this handler
renderers	List the renderers among which the handler will choose to render the content
enginemodule	Configures the engine module variables for this handler
transformgenerator	IXslTransformGeneratorFactory to be used by this handler to load the XSLT file

Parent elements

Element	Description
handlers	contains a collection of HandlerElement