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hussey · 06-01-2004 11:52am #1

Ok this is what I want

a very simple xml/html form

the xml has these elements

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- Edited with XML Spy v4.2 -->
<catalog>
	<page>
		<brief>Brief Description</briefD>
		<pic>images/dsc00173.jpg</pic>
		<detail>Details</detail>
	</page>
</catalog>

the xml will have 3 parts - a brief description, a picture, and a detailed description

The html I have will have two buttons a next+previous etc
and they will navagate through the xml .. this all works fine
but I want to actually desplay the picture, but I don't know how .. so far I can reference where the pic is .. just dunno how to output it

any ideas ??

the html is defined as

<body>
<xml src="merc_pictures.xml" id="xmldso" async="false"></xml>

<p>
Brief Description : 
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="briefd"></span>
<br />Picture :
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="pic"></span>
<br />Full :
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="detailD"></span>
</p>

*I took out excess html

Hobbes · 06-01-2004 3:09pm

Not really sure what you are up to but wouldn't it be something like...

<IMG SRC='<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="pic"></span>'
>

davros · 07-01-2004 10:55am

Originally posted by hussey
the html is defined as

<body>
<xml src="merc_pictures.xml" id="xmldso" async="false"></xml>

<p>
Brief Description : 
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="briefd"></span>
<br />Picture :
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="pic"></span>
<br />Full :
<span datasrc="#xmldso" datafld="detailD"></span>
</p>

This isn't html though. There is no <xml> tag in html, and the span tag does not have datasrc and datafld attributes.

Apart from that, I'm not sure either what you are aiming at. To output a picture, you need to produce html like this:

<img src="images/dsc00173.jpg" alt="Brief Description"/>

MrNuked · 07-01-2004 11:01am

I think you'll need a scripting language to do this, like Javascript. you could definitely do it using Java Servlets.

hussey · 07-01-2004 4:31pm

Yes I know
I just wanted to do it with xml - for testing

xslt works ok

MrNuked · 07-01-2004 4:33pm

I meant use the scripting language or servlet in conjunction with the xml.

Java even has an xml parser. (called SAX afair)

Do you mean you want to do it using markup languages only?

davros · 07-01-2004 4:50pm

OK, with XSLT then:

<xsl:template match="catalog/page">
  <img src="{pic}" alt="{brief}"/>
</xsl:template>

should result in this output:

<img src="images/dsc00173.jpg" alt="Brief Description"/>

I haven't tested it. That what you want?

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