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Subject:RE: Semantic markup for tabular data From:Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 May 2004 09:49:25 -0700 (PDT)
Hi. Chiming in late on this thread.
Given all of this talk about XML, and the difficulty in explaining exactly how you can go about using XML to present data, I've decided to put together a quick little demonstration. You can go to the URL below to view it.
When the page opens, you'll get a prompt. Enter your choice and the file will load. You have to enter "one" "two" or "three" exactly. If you enter something else the JavaScript won't work. Why? Becuase this is a quick and dirty example and I didn't bother with error handling. Also, because this is a quick-and-dirty example, I wrote it just for IE 6+. The code to get this to work in Netscape is much longer, and Opera can't handle XML.
One again, this is a quick and dirty example. normally, I'd work on the look of it a bit more, but I'm not going to spend that kind of time on this. This example doesn't use css. It uses data from a single xml file (movies.xml). The prompt is used to pick the template you want to use to format the xml file (one.xsl, two.xsl, three.xsl).
Anyway, take a look at the templates, take a look at the xml file. If you have questions, let me know. If you have critisms about font size or colors, or some other aspect of format, I think you're missing the point. :-)
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