With the advent of the Web, many organizations have put large amounts of information in the form of HTML pages. These pages are tied up to a single presentation. Extensible Markup Language (XML) allows us to separate the content and the presentation. If the developers think of a migration of these HTML pages to XML mechanically -- trying to create well-formed documents out of the existing HTML documents, or cutting and pasting contents from HTML to the newly created XML files, or whatever -- that would be a pretty daunting task. This article shows how the tool HTML Tidy and a COM Wrapper can make our job simpler. In my article Server side use of MSXMLDOM with HTML, I showed how we can exploit the functionality of the Document Object Model (DOM) parser to work with HTML documents, provided they are well-formed. This article is an extension of the same idea. Here we shall discuss a sample conversion of the bookmark file from HTML to XML and then into a browser-neutral tree view.

This article will be helpful for sites where a lot of information is maintained as flat HTML pages. All these site's pages share some kind of similar structure and the site developers think that the content should be separated from the publishing elements in order to support rendering media other than a browser or in order to have more control over the rendering itself

A brief introduction to working with the XMLDom in ASP and XPath. Complete with examples and desriptions of everything. First part of several upcoming articles.

This is the second article in my series about XML, XMLDom and ASP. For those who missed the first it?s avaible here

In my first article I showed how to parse an XML document using XMLDom and displaying the data. In this second tutorial I?ll show two different ways to retrieve an XML document from a remote server using ASP and ServerXMLHTTP.

XML is a great way to share information. However, if you want to be able to share it people will need to retrieve the data from you somehow (or you from them). For this purpose we have an object called XMLHTTP or, if used on a server, ServerXMLHTTP. Since both XMLDom and XMLHTTP are part of MSXML2 they can cooperate very nice. XMLDom can by auto use XMLHTTP to retrieve information and if you use XMLHTTP it can by auto return a XMLDom object with the retrieved XML data.

The easiest way to retrieve XML from an external site is to let the XMLDom handle it all. This requries the least amount of code and I would guess that it?s also a tiny bit more effective resource wise. Here is how to do it:

This is first of a series of 3 articles that I will write to illustrate the use of XML as Data Source. I have divided this tutorial into 3 chunks. After this tutorial, you will be able to manipulate and play with XML Data files in the same way as you do with MS Access. In addition to that, there are certain advantages of using XML, over MS Access. I introduce these advantages in the text, as we proceed on. The article has been organized in the increasing order of difficulty.

XML stands for Extensible Markup Language. XML can be used in many ways and one of which is 'data storage'. This is the one we will be exploring in this article. XML along with XSL ( Extensible Stylesheet Language ) can by used to present data on the web pages. XML provides the data and XSL allows us to present it the way we want. Remember though that not all browsers support XML on the client side, only Micrsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and above support XML. XML can also be used to perform RPC ( Remote Procedure Call ). Actually this capability of XML to allow communication between distant applications is so strong that Microsoft has developed SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol ) specification which uses XML to allow communication between remote applications. XML can be used for a lot more purposes which I haven't mentioned here. Also keep in mind that Microsoft's future .NET platform will make use of XML even more than any tool does today. ASP+, ADO+ and others will use XML to define and present data. So if you are comfortable with XML today, it will help you in the near future when you will be getting yourself ready to develop applications in the revolutionary platform called Microsoft .NET.