Hello, I am new to using XML. I was curious to know how to make a HTML output from a an XML file generated from an RSS aggregator. I need to make an html web page that lists updated information from the RSS aggregator. I am confused as to how to go about this. If you could please share your thoughts or maybe direct me some where else that explains this functionality well. Thanks so much! Take care.
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OK, there's a few ways to do this. The best way is to do it server-side if you know ASP or PHP or something. You could use javascript to transform client-side, or you can do it this way:
Create a dummy XML file (called 'rss.xml'):
Then save this stylesheet as 'rss.xsl':
Then open the XML file in a browser.
Create a dummy XML file (called 'rss.xml'):
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="rss.xsl"?>
<rss/>
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>RSS test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>RSS news:</h1>
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('[URL unfurl="true"]http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss')/rss/channel/item"/>[/URL]
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<hr/>
<h2>
<a href="{link}">
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</a>
</h2>
<p>
<xsl:value-of select="description"/>
</p>
<p style="font-style: italic">
<xsl:value-of select="pubDate"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
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Have you got it to work? Save the files in any text-editor (notepad will do but not as .txt file). Double-click on the xml file to open in internet explorer. All it takes to implement is internet explorer.
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This worked really well. I had one more question. I tried to make this work on the web. So I referenced the links on the web page created to these files. When I click on the xml file. I get this error:
"The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later."
Is there anything I can do to correct that? Please let me know. Thanks so much.
"The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later."
Is there anything I can do to correct that? Please let me know. Thanks so much.
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Any idea on anything that I can do to get past this error?:
"The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later."
"Access is denied"
I'm not exactly sure what next step I can take. Thanks so much! Take care.
"The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later."
"Access is denied"
I'm not exactly sure what next step I can take. Thanks so much! Take care.
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I actually have full permission over the files. I tried to embed the code with some html and I still get errors. I think I lack the understanding of how to make this work within at HTML page. Is there something that I need to do in order for XML to generate? Thanks a lot.
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