Display XML data on a HTML page

[ColinGregory]

Newbie alert!! I'm hoping that someone can start me off in the right direction for this one...

What I want to do is have a user input data via an html form. When submit is clicked the inputted data is sent as part of a SQL query which returns an xml file. I would like to display the results of the query on the same page as the form in a box near the input form.

I can get as far as sending off the query and getting back an xml file displayed in a new browser window but I don't know how to catch and parse the xml file and place the relavant results in the html file.

All help gratefully received.

 

[simonchristieis]

You need to parse the xml file on the browser.

There are several ways to do this - but the most straightforward would be to use xsl (xml stylesheet language)

A quick tutorial can be found here

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

hth

simon

 

[ColinGregory]

Thanks Simon

I'll be swatting up over the weekend.

Colin