what are .mspx extension files?

[Jill]

I do not know if this is the right place to ask but what
are .mspx files.
for eg: www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/
overview/technologies/default.mspx

Thanks in advance for the explanation.
Jill

 

[vMike]

here is a snip from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/dotnet/runningondotnet.mspx

Content developers can use .NET technologies to create XML-based content
that is easily sharable between workgroups and Web sites. The Microsoft.com
Web content development team built the Windows Server 2003 product site,
using XML and XML Web services in order to showcase the .NET functionality
in Windows Server. You can identify XML-based pages on Microsoft.com by
their .mspx file extension, rather than the more common .htm, .html, or .asp
extensions used by other Microsoft.com pages. One benefit to XML-pages is
that XML templates and schemas are easier to work with when localizing Web
content for other languages. A single schema can be reused by several
international Web sites.

 

[Joshua Flanagan]

I've never heard of it as a standard extension. It's possible they just
created their own custom handler (as you can, by implementing IHttpHandler)
for *.mspx files.

 

[shimonsim]

Is there any more information on this anywhere? And why they couldn't use
regular aspx. What is the big gain of new file extention?
Thanks,
Shimon.