displaying xml in a html page

[jetus]

Hello,

I am brand new to learning html.

I am trying to display an simple xml file in a webpage for the first time.

I used the following..

<Xml id=msg SRC="saleinfo.xml" ></xml>

Nothing displays. The xml file is in the same directory, and I can view the xml page in a browser. The xml file has just one record in it.

Thanks in advance for your help!

[DaveyErwin]

Look at this ...
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_dont.asp

[jetus]

Hi Davey;

I re-created the xml and html files from the w3schools link you provided. I still get a blank screen...

It is almost like IE is blocking the xml file from running?? Is there a setting in IE that I should be turning off?

Again thanks for your post!

[jetus]

There is a "try it yourself>" link, and the code did not work in w3Cshools webpage either?

see the attachment..

[DaveyErwin]

You are not using IE browser,
the xml data island is IE only.

[jetus]

Sorry Davey,

I'm no closer to understanding why or how to display xml code within a html file...

The IE browser is what I am using to open the html file...

[tracknut]

What version of IE are you using? There was a patch that disabled the XML island functionality on early (IE5-7) browsers for security reasons - maybe it's been disabled on your version? The W2Schools demo works for me in IE9.

But this is really not a good way to import XML, it is IE-specific and dependent on your client's browsers. Using PHP via the SimpleXML interface, or directly through the DOM, or even using JavaScript is a better answer.

Dave

[jetus]

I am using ie9, but thanks for pointing me to SimpleXML, I will look there.

I have a pretty simple situation, and was happy using ie9, and was hoping that it would have worked..

[DaveyErwin]

The browser pictured in the
attatchment is not IE, it
looks like chrome to me.

[jetus]

Davey;

I understand now, you are right! I opened up your link in Chrome by default, then clicked on the "try it yourself", and it did not work. But when I did it in ie9 it worked... Thanks for pointing that out.

When I copied their html code, and xml data file into a sub-directory, I still could not get their example to work on my machine using ie9...
I'll post that in their forums and see what they suggest.
Thanks again for your input.

[rajdeep01]

I'd like to display a XML document inside a HTML page as a nicely pretty printed tree structure. I'd like to be able to expand and collapse tree branches. For example Firefox browser does this when you load a plain XML file.

[AndrewGSW]

Originally Posted by rajdeep01

I'd like to display a XML document inside a HTML page as a nicely pretty printed tree structure. I'd like to be able to expand and collapse tree branches. For example Firefox browser does this when you load a plain XML file.

The simplest way would be to load the XML document into an iframe. You are relying on the user's browser to display the collapse/expand tree structure, but this has got to be better than trying to build these yourself. (The user could always copy the XML to an XML-viewer.)

Added: Of course, the XML has to come from the same domain.

Apparently there is an issue with Chrome displaying XML in an iframe.