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I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious but I'm so clueless I don't know where to start. How do I write a script or whatever that will display an XML feed in a webpage? I've got a little thingummy that generates my XML feed and I want to have a bit on a web page that displays what that feed is currently feeding. Do I use XQuery?

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

You can do it with JavaScript or CSS, probably some other ways too. Here's a tutorial. I've used the CSS method, but only to generate entire html pages from xml, not to embed xml in existing html.

― Jaq (Jaq), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

If you're doing this on the server, then probably the easiest way to turn XML into HTML is with XSL.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Feed Digest
http://www.feeddigest.com/

rapidfeeds
http://www.rapidfeeds.com/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:27 (twenty years ago)

another:

FeedSweep
http://www.howdev.com/services/feedsweep/

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

So What is "Feed to JavaScript"?
http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/feed/

all of the above offer an easy method to display RSS

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:31 (twenty years ago)

ooh neat, this all sounds promising, thanks!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Can I ask an "and stuff" question? this is gonna sound stupid, so beware..

What's the best practice for putting together a web site with a left-hand navigation menu with links to content that's displayed on the center of the page? In other words, I want something that works like frames, but frames really aren't done now (yes?), so what's the alternative? Current solution is doing a template & just marking up a series of pages based on this template.

Thinking about it - maybe what I want is for the menu to be a SSI. That could work, I'll try it out.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

dg, yeah, ssi or something like that is one of the simpler ways to handle a templated menu like that.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

OK then, I'll try it out. it's aggravating b/c the CMS for our regular website does something like that with "reusable pages" but this is a separate project so now I have to figure out how to code it.. I'd gotten accustomed to using the CMS solutions even though I prefer not to, but didn't have any choice in the matter.

menus are a perpetual source of annoyance to me, I don't want to do javascript and though I saw some interesting CSS popout menus they don't function so smoothly in practice & would prob frustrate users.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

is there anything that will look at an xml file and tell me where i screwed up in the code?>

― chaki, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have access to Visual Studio? If not, you could see if you can download a trial version of XMLSpy.

― HI DERE, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Internet Explorer or Firefox should both give you a hint of varying usefulness.

― ledge, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

tank u veddy much

― chaki, Friday, 4 January 2008 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

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