pad to html

[pcs800]

I would like to take pad files submitted to my site and have them automatically (or at least partially auto) converted into web pages using a template page.
I run a audio/video software download site and am getting loads of submissions, and it's getting very rough to create these pages manually.
Anyone know of a quick app to do this? or a pad to html script or something?

And BTW, this may sound dumb, but what the !@#$ is a cascading style sheet?

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

>> And BTW, this may sound dumb, but what the !@#$ is a cascading style sheet?

A CSS is a file that lets you apply formatting rules to content on your web page. You can apply all sorts of formatting - changing the font, colour, margins, borders, etc etc etc.

Perhaps you could expand on 'what the !@#$' a PAD file is... Personally, I've never heard of them.

Dan

 

[pcs800]

heh heh, a pad file is a file with the .xml extension. it stands for portable application description.
It's what application developers submit to sotes like zdnet or webattack for their app to be reviewed.
A pad file contains all info about an application.
here is one for a program i wrote.

http://www.bargainmonkey.com/software/xpipcfg.xml

When people submit these pads to me, i have to create a web page by hand to post their app on my site. But now i'm getting loads of them and would like an automated process.

Sorry about the !@#$%

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[woja]

You'll need to process the XML if you want to make the information friendly.

Microsoft provides a set of COM classes for this which can be used in ASP pages (I know this because I use them).

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/htm/xmmscxmlreference.asp

as a start...

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Roger J Coult; Grimsby, UK
In the game of life the dice have an odd number of sides.

 

[pcs800]

Great! but I have no clue what to do with that stuff. I do not know C or C++ :-(
I was hopeing some genius out there had created some software that i could input an xml file into and out pops an html document.

Eric VanLandingham
The Bargain Monkey

http://www.bargainmonkey.com

 

[Chacalinc]

sorry my friend.. but I think your question could not answered here, because you need programming.

A very good language is PHP. Take a look on:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php

Cheers.

 

[woja]

You don't need C/C++; you can use them in ASP scripts. You could also try using XML transformations (which is still programming, just another language) but which may be simpler for what you want. Don't have reference handy, but try the XML forum (forum426).

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Roger J Coult; Grimsby, UK
In the game of life the dice have an odd number of sides.