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xml and ASP

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Kazzy

Programmer
Jul 21, 2003
20
US
Hello everyone,

I am very new to xml world (4 hrs). I am working with asp and access. I was given over 1000 files in xml format to display on the browser.

I have about 10 main xml files that look like this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<folder>
<folder-name> XDSD </folder-name>
<category>
<category-name> food articles</category-name>
<category-items>
<item-name>Stages</item-name>
<item-description>blah blah blah</item-description>
<item-id>11944</item-id>
</category-items>

.......more

</category>
<folder>

Then I have (thousands) xml files that contains some html. These are related to the main xml files according to the item-id

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<item>
<item-id>11944</item-id>
<item-content>
<html>
<head>
<title> Holiday Pounds</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">blah blah......</font><br>
</body>
</html>
</item-content>
</item>

I am not sure what is the best way to manage this files. Every month I will get some new xml files and the same files probably with changes. We are buying content from some other comapany and they provided the inf in a xml format.

Also, I am not sure how to link these files. At this moment I am able to display the data in the browser by using xsl and the parser. That all I know. I was looking for inf on how to store the xml files in access database. However, I don't see much inf on that.

Any advice please! Help...

Thank you
 
Wouldn't bother putting them in a database. You can use them with ASP as they are (using XML objects). Also, you can do a lot with XSL. What exactly are you gonna do with the data?
 
Hello JontyMC,
The data contains articles, news, tips, information about different topic on health, parenting etc. In order to see that inf. user must login. Once they login I need to display a menu according to the services they selected during registration. Data needs to be display on the browser as the user clicks on each topic and be able to do a search

Thank you
 
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