Newbie with questions

[Neily]

Could I use XML to add to an HTML file HTML code at a certain point and then display results to screen? I am currently doing this with vbScript and it works well.

Do you need any special software on servers to run XML? My ISP doesn't seem to support anythin I do at the moment!!

Thanks Neil

 

[Vince]

Hi,

Yes you can do what you want to. There are many examples of this on the internet e.g

http://www.xml101.com.

As for software requirements there are several ways to go

to transform (work with xml using xsl) on the server your isp will have to have either a SAX pharser or a DOM parser installed and you will need to know which one they are using.

You can parse and transform on the client using some browsers. IE 4.01 and above allow you to use the inbuilt xml parser which you can reference on your client script

var oDom = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"

this will allow you to do what you are trying to do on the client.

If you have any further questions or need pointing in the general direction of some resources drop me a line @

vince_dooher@hotmail.com

I hope this is of some use