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RE: Using XML-formatted data on a site - 6/21/2002 10:54:42
Hi Penny,
So you have XML as the data source? What you need to do is build an XSL page to transform the raw XML into HTML format. When that is done, you can use ASP to load the XML and XSL transform. Here's a function we built for a particular project that does this:
'-------------------------------------------------------------------
'This function accepts two paramters:
'strXMLFile - The XML file that you wish to view
'strXSLFile - The XSL stylesheet that will transform the XML file
'-------------------------------------------------------------------
Function loadXMLFile(strXMLFile, strXSLFile)
'Declare local variables
Dim objXML
Dim objXSL
Dim objNode
'Instantiate the XMLDOM Object that will hold the XML file.
set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
'Turn off asyncronous file loading.
objXML.async = false
'Load the XML file.
objXML.load(strXMLFile)
'Instantiate the XMLDOM Object that will hold the XSL file.
set objXSL = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
'Turn off asyncronous file loading.
objXSL.async = false
'Load the XSL file.
objXSL.load(strXSLFile)
'Use the "transformNode" method of the XMLDOM to apply the XSL
'stylesheet to the XML document. Then the output is written to the
'client.
Response.Write(objXML.transformNode(objXSL))
End Function
Of course what you are talking about is a lot more complicated than this example. You probably want to allow various methods of searching and narrowing down of criteria etc.
I don't think that the software is quite there yet for building these types of interfaces unless you want to use Visual Studio .NET and ASP.NET. If you want to do this yourself, your best bet would be to start learning about ASP and XML.
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I manage a real estate site. Our MLS (multiple listing service) offers us three ways to offer our visitors a search of the database. One is simply framing - but their format is crude (at best) and the only information about a house that it gives is the name & number of the listing agent. To top it off, they include properties that are already under contract. 
The next option is to 'gateway.' But what the heck is that? They don't offer any information about that and I'm totally lost. 
