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newb to xml....
I have an XML file, and I have a web page....(great start huh?) :D
I want the data to display as follows:
Data 1 | Data 2 | Data 3 | Data 4
but all I can make work is:
Data 1
Data 2
Data 3
If I try anything else, I get:
Data 1 | Data 1 | Data 1 |Data 1
Help?
Huh?
Code example as follows:
Code:<html>
<body>
<xml id="cdcat" src="cd_catalog.xml"></xml>
<table border="1" datasrc="#cdcat">
<tr>
<td><span datafld="ARTIST"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="TITLE"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
If I try
Then I get the same ARTIST and the same TITLE on the same row.Code:<td><span datafld="ARTIST"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="TITLE"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="ARTIST"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="TITLE"></span></td>
I actually want ARTIST 1, TITLE 1, then ARTIST 2, TITLE 2 on row one....then ARTIST 3, TITLE 3, ARTIST 4, TITLE 4 on the next...so on and so on....
Who processes this file? What does the XML file look like?
here is the XML...
whatchathink?Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<CATALOG>
<Group>
<Artist>Bob</Artist>
<Title>Bobs Album</Title>
</Group>
<Group>
<Artist>Steve</Artist>
<Title>Steves Album</Title>
</Group>
<Group>
<Artist>Fred</Artist>
<Title>Freds Album</Title>
</Group>
<Group>
<Artist>John</Artist>
<Title>Johns Album</Title>
</Group>
</CATALOG>
I still don't know what program processes your "HTML" file to generate real HTML. I need to know its capabilities for the datafld attribute.
ok...so maybe that is my problem...??
I am not sure what you are talking about...
I have the first section of coding in my html page....
and the second set of coding is my XML file....
so obviously I am missing something..?? :confused:
If I load that HTML you have in a browser, it won't display anything. Maybe IE does in a special mode, but a normal browser doesn't. This means that there must be some program that loads your HTML file, reads it and inserts the data from the XML file. I want to know what program that is and what it is capable of.
guess, that is making sense....
since I am using (gulp, I know you hate it)....IE that may be why it is processing in the testing enviroment..
This work is at home and I am at the office, so I cant dig into it more at this point....but thanks for the starting point, of a path I need to check.... ;)
hate to be a pain....
been out of town for awhile...and just getting back to this project...
I am still lost. I went through w3schools tutorial on XML and came back....still confused...
If I take the html presented here, and save it to a htm file. Take the XML presented here, and save it to a XML file (named cd_catalog.xml, in the same directory)....
double click the htm file...I get results (not the layout I want) but I get results....so how do I get you the information you are needing ?
I appreciate your help with this, and want to do it the CORRECT way...but cant seem to understand...
:confused:Quote:
This means that there must be some program that loads your HTML file, reads it and inserts the data from the XML file.
I wouldn't trust a tutorial where the first two sentences are
Anyway, that's got nothing to do with MS's Data Islands.Quote:
XML was designed to describe data and focus on what data is.
HTML was designed to display data and focus on how data looks.
I fear that stupid techology is simply too limited to do what you want. Learn XSLT, it's far more complicated, but also far more powerful and a W3C standard.
with that advice...is there a tutorial (other than W3schools) that you would suggest for XSLT ?
I like the zvon tutorials.
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/
Thanks! :D
I will give it a shot.... :D