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