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psili · 09-15-2005, 09:48 AM

The only reason I was thinking XML as pretty much any scripting language could grab it from a remote server and parse it however they want - much like how RSS is such a big hit since it's just XML.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<content>
 <item>
  <link>http://somewhere.com</link>
  <text>text for the hyperlink</text>
  <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img>
 </item>
 <item>
  <link>http://somewhere.com</link>
  <text>text for the hyperlink</text>
  <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img>
 </item>
 <item>
  <link>http://somewhere.com</link>
  <text>text for the hyperlink</text>
  <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img>
 </item>
 .......
</content>

Let's say you somehow dymanically create the above XML file. Any remote server can grab it when they want, parse it (using any number of parsers; i.e. tons of free PHP tutorials for parsing) into the HTML formatting they need.

Basically, if you remove the data from the presentation (html), the end user has free reign on how they can display it.

Then again, it takes added knowledge to be able to parse it in the first place.

09-15-2005, 09:48 AM
psili Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Loveland, CO Posts: 5,526	The only reason I was thinking XML as pretty much any scripting language could grab it from a remote server and parse it however they want - much like how RSS is such a big hit since it's just XML. Code: <?xml version="1.0"?> <content> <item> <link>http://somewhere.com</link> <text>text for the hyperlink</text> <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img> </item> <item> <link>http://somewhere.com</link> <text>text for the hyperlink</text> <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img> </item> <item> <link>http://somewhere.com</link> <text>text for the hyperlink</text> <img width="100" height="120">http://somewhere.com/img.jpg</img> </item> ....... </content> Let's say you somehow dymanically create the above XML file. Any remote server can grab it when they want, parse it (using any number of parsers; i.e. tons of free PHP tutorials for parsing) into the HTML formatting they need. Basically, if you remove the data from the presentation (html), the end user has free reign on how they can display it. Then again, it takes added knowledge to be able to parse it in the first place. __________________ Your post count means nothing.