Help formatting XML data into an address block and columns

[Evil8]

I am trying to post meeting information on an html page by pulling XML data into the page. I've done that, but I'm having issues fomating that into a block.

Joe's
January 15, 2012 - 1:00pm
100 Main St
Mytown, MS 12345

I don't use css much so I'm not sure how, or if, this would work with the datafld="" property.

Also the output table is one long single column, is there a way to force the data into a certain table row length and then into more columns?

Here's my code:

<table width="80%" datasrc="#myXML" border="1" align="center" bordercolor="#FFFFFF">
  <caption>
  <span><strong><font color="#990000" size="6">Meetings By City</font></strong></span> 
  </caption>

  <tbody>
		<tr> 
      <td><div align="left" valign="top"><font size="2"><strong><span datafld="name"> </span></strong></font></div><br>
      									<font size="2"><span datafld="edate"> </span></font> - <font size="2"><span datafld="etime"> </span></font></div><br>
      									<font size="2"><span datafld="address"> </span></font></div><br>
      									<font size="2"><span datafld="city"> </span></font>, <font size="2"><span datafld="state"> </span>  <font size="2"><span datafld="zip"> </span></div><br>
      									</div></td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

All help is appreciated!

 

[jmeckley]

is the "code" above what is returned from the server or is this the current final output? xml is just data, it can be formatted however you like using XSLT.

I would start with this template

<div class="event">
<h1>[title]</h1>
<p>
[name]</br>
[date]</br>
[address line 1]</br>
[city], [state], [zip code]</br>
</p>
</div>

it's been awhile since I used XSLT directly, but there are plenty of examples online.

you can then style these elements with

div.event {}
div.event h1 {}
div.event p {}

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[Evil8]

The output is what the user sees on the web page. I'm just now starting to use XML as I've used ms access 2010 to input the meeting information and I can sort and output pages as xml data. I thought this would be a simpler process once all the bugs were worked out, but it's quickly becomming a pain.

I'll look into the XSLT stuff. Thanks!