Microsoft XML - Total newbee question data island using XML tag in HTML

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Total newbee question data island using XML tag in HTML

XMLNewbee

2004-02-27, 12:28 am

Well I thought atleast i'll get started today. What I am trying to do is real simple. Well I was expecting this to work before I get into some real stuff but there's obviously something wrong that I cant figure out. Please help !!!

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Document with Data Island</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><XML ID="Sanjeev1"><xml><person><name>Sanjeev</name><phone>7145331308</phone></person><person><name>Shikha</name><phone>5625331308</phone></person></xml></XML></BODY></HTML>

Brian Staff

2004-02-27, 3:28 am

What were you expecting? An XML data-island will not display anything on its
own. I'd say its working perfectly...except you do not need dual <xml> tags.

Are you now wanting to bind it to a table?

Brian
"XMLNewbee" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A16DC6A1-9308-4CFD-BF2F-8FD4854215E0@microsoft.com...
> Well I thought atleast i'll get started today. What I am trying to do is
real simple. Well I was expecting this to work before I get into some real
stuff but there's obviously something wrong that I cant figure out. Please
help !!!
>
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Document with Data Island</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><XML
ID="Sanjeev1"><xml><person><name>Sanjeev</name><phone>7145331308</phone></pe
rson><person><name>Shikha</name><phone>5625331308</phone></person></xml></XM
L></BODY></HTML>

Buddy Ackerman

2004-02-27, 6:30 pm

First don't use data islands. They are stuck at the version supported by
the browser. Create objects in JScript like this:

var XML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.x.0")

Replace the "x" with the version that is installed on your client. Don't
know what the version is? Try this code:

var xml
try {
XML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.4.0")
}
catch (e){
try {
XML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DomDocument.3.0")
}
catch (e) {
try{
XML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DomDocument")
}
catch (e){
alert("No valid parser installed");
}
}
}
// after this you can load an XML document from a webserver (or webservice)
like this

xml.load("http://somewebserver/somedocumentthatreturnsXML.asp")

Then use XSL transforms to create your HTML or make sure that the xml
Document that you load is properly formed xhtml.

--Buddy

"XMLNewbee" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A16DC6A1-9308-4CFD-BF2F-8FD4854215E0@microsoft.com...
> Well I thought atleast i'll get started today. What I am trying to do is
real simple. Well I was expecting this to work before I get into some real
stuff but there's obviously something wrong that I cant figure out. Please
help !!!
>
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HTML Document with Data Island</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><XML
ID="Sanjeev1"><xml><person><name>Sanjeev</name><phone>7145331308</phone></pe
rson><person><name>Shikha</name><phone>5625331308</phone></person></xml></XM
L></BODY></HTML>