This introduction to XML presents the Extensible Markup Language at a reasonably technical level for anyone interested in learning more about structured documents. In addition to covering the XML 1.0 Specification, this article outlines related XML specifications, which are evolving. The article is organized in four main sections plus an appendix.
With XML being the latest and greatest craze, I thought this might be useful to someone out there. It's a little script that queries a database and then using ADO's built in Save feature saves a copy of the data as an XML file. The format isn't perfect since it's meant to be opened back up by ADO, but it sure beats writing it by hand!
In this particular example we are again going to display stock quotes from Yahoo . This is slightly different because it retrieves the quotes in csv format the stores the results in an array and then we display a table with the information
So you've learned how to create an XML file and you've even learned how to format and display it using an XSL style sheet (if you haven't learned it yet, take a look at the article "Your First XML/XSL Documents"). Now your problem is that not everybody has a browser that supports XSL style sheets. No problem!
With the advent of the Web, many organizations have put large amounts of information in the form of HTML pages. These pages are tied up to a single presentation. Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows us to separate the content and the presentation. If the developers think of a migration of these HTML pages to XML mechanically -- trying to create well-formed documents out of the existing HTML documents, or cutting and pasting contents from HTML to the newly created XML files, or whatever -- that would be a pretty daunting task. This article shows how the tool HTML Tidy and a COM Wrapper can make our job simpler
Many articles have been written about how to send an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file and an associated Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) file to Web clients to reduce processing load on the server.
Speed is in the Structure. Some of you may have tried this before, and if you used something like ADO to produce your XML file from a recordset, you will find this technique very, very slow. I was put well off the scent about a year ago when I tried it myself. This is simply because I was using the ADO XML structure which was really designed for persisting/restoring recordsets and is not optimized for searching.
This shows a collection of freely available comic strips that can be added to your site . This requires the Microsoft XMLHttp component to be installed
