What is XML and how to I get a tracker to validate my site?
Q. I am trying to get signed on to a blog tracker to track my site. I have a meta tag and everything but it is asking about XML and I have no clue what it is and when I research it is seems as if all the advice is for people who already know a bit about it.. I know NOTHING about it at all. Please help!
Asked by Amy S - Sun Oct 12 19:00:36 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose specification for creating custom markup languages. It is classified as an extensible language because it allows its users to define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to help information systems share structured data, particularly via the Internet. Here is a validator: P.S. w3.org has an HTML and CSS validator as well. w3 is considered the standard in web development.
Answered by garyr_h - Sun Oct 12 20:14:51 2008

What is the best way to store/process a XML datafile?
Q. I want to use XML as datafile,but I have a lot of information (many entries). 1. Do I need to make many file for each entry. or use one XML file to store all entries? 2. I am planning to use AJAX as UI to get the XMLHttpResponse from the server (PHP based). I would like to modify the XML file immediately like Flickr. What should I do to append/modify new data on the XML file in Server? Thank you!
Asked by bzkit1983 - Fri Dec 9 10:47:28 2005 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. 1. It's probably easier to store everything in one file, but that might lead to performance issues when parsing the XML. I'd try it that way first, and then change to the many-files model if it's too slow. 2. I've done a project like this (see sources below), and the way I handled it was to write a backend Python or PHP (or whatever) script to modify the XML file. When the user changes something, do a POST to that script, and the script modifies the XML file appropriately. (then reload the XML file to get the updated data). Feel free to play around with my site, look at my code and take it for your own uses - the javascript code and backend Python code is all available at the site below.
Answered by gstoll2003 - Fri Dec 9 11:01:13 2005

Is there anyway to retrieve the structure of an XML file?
Q. I'm building an app that displays the contents of an xml file in tables. It's simple enough to display XML like this when you know the XMLs structure but I want this to work with any XML file. So, does anyone know of a method of retrieving a list of the XML documents' elements? Maybe in the form of an array?
Asked by squariegoes - Tue Nov 11 12:07:08 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. This is possible in .net (and probably java\php\asp) But in whatever language you want you could do a loop to get all child elements of the root node and instead of retrieving the inner xml you could retrieve the actual node name a bit like: List childnodelist = new List; foreach (xmlchildnode childnode in xmldocument) { childnodelist.add(childno de.name.tostring()); } This is very rough and not really any language :) Hope this helps PS: If its a few levels down just use nested foreach loops!
Answered by unknown - Tue Nov 11 16:28:41 2008