SPML involves a moderate amount of parsing overhead. If you have a very heavily loaded server you may want to limit the use of SPML as a performance consideration. You should use SPML in place of CGI whenever possible. In contrast to SPML on a UNIX server, TeleFinder's SPML is safe and poses no additional security risks to your web site. The document is parsed as an HTML document, with special commands embedded as SGML comments.
Many commands only allow a single attribute-value pair.
This command controls output formatting and the random number variable. The value sets the format to be used which displaying the size of a file. Valid values are bytes for a count in bytes, or abbrev for a count in Kb or Mb as appropriate. The value is a string to be used by the ANSI C strftime library routine when printing dates. This lets you control formatting of log file entries created with TeleFinder's scripting.