Hi all !

[bkm]

I'm new here!

I was wondering if anyone can help me.

I have a friend who is giving me some xml files but I dunno use what to read :?
I'm only learning html :)

[CL]

Just read? Any text editor / viewer will do...

[bkm]

putting on the web to read.

Can anyone help? :P

[bkm]

No one wants to help :cry: :cry: :cry:

[eyes_only]

Maybe becoz we dun understand wat u are really trying to do.
May be u can tell us better.
or perhaps email me one of the files so I can see what u are referring to. :wink:

[bkm]

OK,

I got some xml file feeds from a "not so close" biz friend and I can't really tell him I dunno it :oops:

so, I need "something" to display it on the site.

I just visited myphpnuke, don't understand what is it, some call it content management system. :(

Can anyone assist me? any help is appreciated :)

[EricTham]

Hi BKM,

We cannot help you if you don't tell us what you want to do with it. Baiscally what i can explian to you is that XML is a programming language just like HTML, just that it is kinda more advance.

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling software, news system, online community or whatever you want to call it. Its goal is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with user system. Each user can submit comments to discuss the articles, similar to Slashdot and many others. Features: web based admin, polls/surveys with comment option, statistics, user customizable box, themes manager, friendly admin GUI with graphic topic manager, moderation system, Referrers page, sections manager, banners ads system, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Yahoo like search engine, Ephemerid manager, file manager, download manager, faq manager, advanced blocks system, reviews system, newsletter, Multilanguage content management, encyclopedia generator, md5 password encryption and support for 25 languages.

You will need to have a web hosting provider that supports php and mySQL (or any other kind of database) before you can use it.

If you still need any help, do let us know :)

[choon]

Hi EricTham,

We cannot help you if you don't tell us what you want to do with it. Baiscally what i can explian to you is that XML is a programming language just like HTML, just that it is kinda more advance.

Care to explain as to what I read from your above... HTML is a programming language? Or XML is a programming language but not HTML?

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon

[EricTham]

Hi,

Okay, HTML = hyper text markup language , XML = Extensible Markup Language. HTML and XML can be named in the same cat as pogramming language since is written by ascii source code.

The difference between html and xml is that in HTML, both the tag semantics and the tag set are fixed. An <h1> is always a first level heading and the tag <ati.product.code> is meaningless. The W3C, in conjunction with browser vendors and the WWW community, is constantly working to extend the definition of HTML to allow new tags to keep pace with changing technology and to bring variations in presentation (stylesheets) to the Web. However, these changes are always rigidly confined by what the browser vendors have implemented and by the fact that backward compatibility is paramount. And for people who want to disseminate information widely, features supported by only the latest releases of Netscape and Internet Explorer are not useful.

XML specifies neither semantics nor a tag set. In fact XML is really a meta-language for describing markup languages. In other words, XML provides a facility to define tags and the structural relationships between them. Since there's no predefined tag set, there can't be any preconceived semantics. All of the semantics of an XML document will either be defined by the applications that process them or by stylesheets.

I hope this help,
Thank You
Eric Tham

Hi EricTham,

We cannot help you if you don't tell us what you want to do with it. Baiscally what i can explian to you is that XML is a programming language just like HTML, just that it is kinda more advance.

Care to explain as to what I read from your above... HTML is a programming language? Or XML is a programming language but not HTML?

Thanks.

Kindest regards,
Choon

[bkm]

We cannot help you if you don't tell us what you want to do with it. Baiscally what i can explian to you is that XML is a programming language just like HTML, just that it is kinda more advance.

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling software, news system, online community or whatever you want to call it. Its goal is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with user system. Each user can submit comments to discuss the articles, similar to Slashdot and many others. Features: web based admin, polls/surveys with comment option, statistics, user customizable box, themes manager, friendly admin GUI with graphic topic manager, moderation system, Referrers page, sections manager, banners ads system, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Yahoo like search engine, Ephemerid manager, file manager, download manager, faq manager, advanced blocks system, reviews system, newsletter, Multilanguage content management, encyclopedia generator, md5 password encryption and support for 25 languages.



Thanks Eric.

I was told the xml files are for news feeds, so can the myphpnuke work with them?
Actually I just need something to read it and present it on the web, don't really need all the myphphnuke features.

Can you help?

Thank you in advance. :D

[EricTham]

Hi,

Looking for something simple? Try go www.hotscripts.com and look under PHP : Scripts and Programs : News Publishing . You can find many simple and even WYUWYG news script.

Phpnuke is a portal and even can be use as a low end CRM, i suggest you not to use it if you are just looking to update some news for your vistors to see.

I suggest you try this script at http://www.jtr.de/scripting/php/newspage/index_eng.html , it might be what you looking for.

Thank You
Eric Tham

We cannot help you if you don't tell us what you want to do with it. Baiscally what i can explian to you is that XML is a programming language just like HTML, just that it is kinda more advance.

PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling software, news system, online community or whatever you want to call it. Its goal is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with user system. Each user can submit comments to discuss the articles, similar to Slashdot and many others. Features: web based admin, polls/surveys with comment option, statistics, user customizable box, themes manager, friendly admin GUI with graphic topic manager, moderation system, Referrers page, sections manager, banners ads system, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Yahoo like search engine, Ephemerid manager, file manager, download manager, faq manager, advanced blocks system, reviews system, newsletter, Multilanguage content management, encyclopedia generator, md5 password encryption and support for 25 languages.



Thanks Eric.

I was told the xml files are for news feeds, so can the myphpnuke work with them?
Actually I just need something to read it and present it on the web, don't really need all the myphphnuke features.

Can you help?

Thank you in advance. :D

[bkm]

Thanks for the help, Eric.

I'll try that, hope it works.

Got to go now, take care, everyone ! :wink:

[icelava]

Hi,

Okay, HTML = hyper text markup language , XML = Extensible Markup Language. HTML and XML can be named in the same cat as pogramming language since is written by ascii source code.

The difference between html and xml is that in HTML, both the tag semantics and the tag set are fixed. An <h1> is always a first level heading and the tag <ati.product.code> is meaningless. The W3C, in conjunction with browser vendors and the WWW community, is constantly working to extend the definition of HTML to allow new tags to keep pace with changing technology and to bring variations in presentation (stylesheets) to the Web. However, these changes are always rigidly confined by what the browser vendors have implemented and by the fact that backward compatibility is paramount. And for people who want to disseminate information widely, features supported by only the latest releases of Netscape and Internet Explorer are not useful.

XML specifies neither semantics nor a tag set. In fact XML is really a meta-language for describing markup languages. In other words, XML provides a facility to define tags and the structural relationships between them. Since there's no predefined tag set, there can't be any preconceived semantics. All of the semantics of an XML document will either be defined by the applications that process them or by stylesheets.


Yup Eric is correct in mentioning that HTML is just a subset of XML. However I wouldn't go that far to classify MLs as programming languages. HTML is a formatting language to tell browsers how to display documents, and likewise XML is mainly tagging data informing applications how to intepret them.

Sure you could define XML tags to actually tell a particular software to perform functions like you would with in a programming language - but isn't that what actual programming languages are for anyway? That'll only be good for cross-platform-cross-application communication.

[birdfoot]

err.... bkm, r u saying tat u r tryin 2 view xml documents on ur web browser?? u cant view xml using a browser, it juz shows u the nodes of the data... 2 say, it wont display a page in a way u'd tink ur html wil shw... u need 2 use xslt 2 convert xml 2 viewable format (tat is more 'html-page-like')... xml is more like a format where when u query data frm a server database and gets sent 2 ur browser... geez... im realli tryin hard 2 explain in basic terms so don mind me... i hope tis helps in ur understanding as i don realli get wat u were asking... :)

btw, html is definitely not programming... i believe html as a programming language is juz a jargon 2 ppl who r non-techie... plain html is more of a designer chore than a developer... plain html oni offers u formatting... there is no programming logic involved... html + any middleware is web scripting/programming, a different genre frm programming itself... im not sure abt xml tho... but i tink xml is stil not a programming language... xml itself doesnt manipulate anything but gets manipulated... u can say it lies in the same league as a flat db file such as a csv except tat it's done reversed... usualli u setup a db n then stores values in2 it... xml is u put in values n let something read it... :)