[AccessD] Ajax and Atlas with XML

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Aug 17 06:05:41 CDT 2005


Hi Marty

Thanks! Great links.

/gustav


>>> martyconnelly at shaw.ca 08/16 9:49 pm >>>
If looking for xml info starter sites.

http://www.xml.org 
http://www.xml.com 
A vb oriented site was once vbxml.com
http://www.topxml.com 

Try to buy XML books published in last 3 years otherwise
you wont get latest in XSLT and  XQuery. Old books maybe based on old 
XSL patterns
which might prove confusing.


Now here is the latest buzz in XML development with AJAX.

In computer programming, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a 
method of building interactive applications for the Web that process 
user requests immediately.Ajax allows content on Web pages to update 
immediately when a user performs an action, unlike an HTTP request, 
during which users must wait for a whole new page to load. For example,

a weather forecasting site could display local conditions on one side
of 
the page without delay after a user types in a zip code.
Google Map works this way. ATLAS is a downloadable javascript engine 
Microsoft  is supposed to bring out in September at some convention.

How difficult is this stuff well it is not rocket science. But an 
amalgam of 4 or 5 techniques. Ajax combines several programming tools 
including JavaScript, dynamic HTML (DHTML), Extensible Markup Language

(XML), cascading style sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), 
and the Microsoft object, XMLHttpRequest. After that you can use Web 
Services to grab the xml data. You could modify javascript to VBA too 
for use in Access.

Some sites where you can grab javascript source and  examples of Ajax
or 
download them

http://www.clearnova.com/ajax/index.html 
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/XMLHttpRequestExample/example.html


Articles
Dynamic HTML and xmlhttpRequest object
http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/xmlhttpreq.html 

Jesse Garrett  What is Ajax?  (The guy that gave it the name)
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php 




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