Embed XML into HTML

MarkLP · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:26

Hi, I am completely new to this so any help would be appreciated!

How do I go about inserting XML data into a HTML document?

I want to embed this http://whatpulse.org/api/team.php?TeamID=11231

into a webpage, but show just as writing without all the code bits and no drop down menus, or wether people are Team managers etc..

Anyone have any ideas please?

Thanks,
Mark

ringo747 · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:43

hi im not 100% sure on this but i think you have to create an XHTML file with the inclusion of the relevant DTD headers. Then you will create an XML data island using something like

Code:

<XML ID="myXML" SRC="filename.xml"></XML>

This will set up the xml file and cache it into your browser. Then you can use javascript to access the XML DOM and display the parts of the file as you require.

I know this maybe isnt much help but it should be a start.

MarkLP · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:54

jonnyc747 said:
hi im not 100% sure on this but i think you have to create an XHTML file with the inclusion of the relevant DTD headers. Then you will create an XML data island using something like

Code:

<XML ID="myXML" SRC="filename.xml"></XML>

This will set up the xml file and cache it into your browser. Then you can use javascript to access the XML DOM and display the parts of the file as you require.

I know this maybe isnt much help but it should be a start.

I really haven't got a clue what you were just on about :confused:

sorry!

Are there any tutorials or guides?

Thanks

Pr0t0c0L · 4 Feb 2007 at 15:03

you have to convert the tags into html special characters

< becomes < and > becomes >

JIMA · 4 Feb 2007 at 15:41

Hi,

The w3c site has a tutorial on XML Data Islands. The example given looks to be pretty close to what you want to do. Here's the link:

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_data_island.asp

The Sams XML in 24 hour book does quite a bit on Data Islands too, could be worth a look.

Hope that helps.

Jim