What's the point of this messageboard existing if you can't ask for help? Don't you have a go at me, I attend all the lectures and have read all the notes, looked at websites and have even taken a book from the library but i'm still struggling. Luckily a helpful guy above has assisted me and now i'm alright. If you're not posting to help me out, don't bother posting to me at all!

Thank you Curtis, the code works fine :) I should be alright now but i'll let you know if I have anymore problems. Thanks for your help!

My CD Collection

Title

Artist

- Voodoo Child Jimmy Hendrix USA Columbia 9.99 2000 The Wall Pink Floyd USA A and M 14.99 1986 London Calling Clash UK Virgin 13.99 1984 Hotel California The Eagles USA Island 9.99 1990 Shout Tears For Fears UK Columbia 12.99 1984 Blue Monday New Order UK A and M 10.99 1987 Singles The Smiths UK Virgin 12.99 1996 She Sells Sanctuary The Cult USA Island 14.99 1989

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Curtis, in case you've gone out and i'm not here by the time you reply i'll post up my whole code. Maybe you could see what's wrong? My html file is: Untitled Document

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This code won't work for my XML file. i don't know why. The actual table is being displayed fine but it isn't aligned to the middle and the text and border should be in colour. Hope you can help! :)

Some expert must be there to help me surely? I'm really panicking over this. Even if you don't think you're right could someone please suggest something?

This is rediculous, how do I get the code to show up? It's the "xml stylesheet type=text/xsl href="CDCatalog.xsl". I'm hoping as i've written it normally this time without any brackets it'll show up?

The code didn't show up for some reason, i'll try again: "?" Please help me!

I'm trying to add some XSL to my XML page. I have checked my CXSL code with XMLSpy and it's well formed. I insert the following line which works fine when I open up the XML file on it's own: However, when I try openoing up my whole html document, it doesn't work. The table comes up, but there's no colour, border adjustments, nothing! Why is this? I've checked websites and even a book and they all say this code is correct. I want to get my XSL inside the HTML file but for some reason it isn't letting me. I have to hand this work in tomorrow morning so please help me quick!

For some reason the titles etc aren't copying. If you could just type http://www.w3schools.com/xml/cd\_catalog.xml into your browser you will see what code I am on about. I copy it into notepad, save it as a .html file, but when I try opening it up in IE, the XML files aren't rendered, there's no red + and - symbols like there should be?

Strange, the titles have gone missing. here it is again properly: - Empire Burlesque Bob Dylan USA Columbia 10.90 1985 Hide your heart Bonnie Tyler UK CBS Records 9.90 1988 Greatest Hits Dolly Parton USA RCA 9.90 1982 Still got the blues Gary Moore UK Virgin records 10.20 1990 Eros Eros Ramazzotti EU BMG 9.90 1997 One night only Bee Gees UK Polydor 10.90 1998 Sylvias Mother Dr.Hook UK CBS 8.10 1973 Maggie May Rod Stewart UK Pickwick 8.50 1990 Romanza Andrea Bocelli EU Polydor 10.80 1996 When a man loves a woman Percy Sledge USA Atlantic 8.70 1987 Black angel Savage Rose EU Mega 10.90 1995 1999 Grammy Nominees Many USA Grammy 10.20 1999 For the good times Kenny Rogers UK Mucik Master 8.70 1995 Big Willie style Will Smith USA Columbia

Christian, I have found a good example of a CD catalog I may use to help me. The code is as follows: - - - Empire Burlesque Bob Dylan USA Columbia 10.90 1985 - Hide your heart Bonnie Tyler UK CBS Records 9.90 1988 - Greatest Hits Dolly Parton USA RCA 9.90 1982 - Still got the blues Gary Moore UK Virgin records 10.20 1990 - Eros Eros Ramazzotti EU BMG 9.90 1997 - One night only Bee Gees UK Polydor 10.90 1998 - Sylvias Mother Dr.Hook UK CBS 8.10 1973 - Maggie May Rod Stewart UK Pickwick 8.50 1990 - Romanza Andrea Bocelli EU Polydor 10.80 1996 - When a man loves a woman Percy Sledge USA Atlantic 8.70 1987 - Black angel Savage Rose EU Mega 10.90 1995 - 1999 Grammy Nominees Many USA Grammy 10.20 1999 - For the good times Kenny Rogers UK Mucik Master 8.70 1995 - Big Willie style Will Smith

Thank you Christian, really appreciate it :)

Thanks for your help. I will have a go at it now and let you know how i'm doing. I'm taking a course called Computer Studies and there's 6 modules in the course. The course contains a mixture of everything, 1 module is database development, another is web design and so on. The module i'm doing at the moment is advanced internet development and this assignment happens to be on XML. My lecturer is useless and all he's said is to search for tutorials to help. I have managed to get the XML text displayed in the browser so that's a start, at least i'm making progress! Now I can do that, i'll concentrate on writing some code to help me create a default opening page. I suppose i'll have to look through more tutorials to help me with that! Thanks for your help so far :)

Thanks for the reply. Without meaning to sound completely dull, as I have said I have never used XML before. Looking through tutorials, there's examples of creating a web page using XML language, but, for instance, if I copy and paste the code into notepad, I then have no idea how to bring the code up as a web page. I did a small bit of HTML 3 years ago and I know XML is similar, but i've forgotton even the most basic things! So basically, imagine i'm a complete novice who has never used XML before. How do I set up a basic web page using XML language? Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

I am a student and have been given the following question using XML. I have never used XML before. I have looked through tutorials and they confuse me! I would really appreciate it if any XML experts out there could help me, just to get me on the right track and so I understand what i'm doing. My assignment question is: You are required to demonstrate your understanding of the XML technologies studied through the production (publishing) of two sets of static html pages using XSL techniques and multiple XML data source(s). Each set of static html pages must: • provide a default opening page linking to other pages as relevant. • provide a sample of online trading pages. • comprise a minimum of four categories/sections, each comprising a minimum of four sub-categories/sub-sections. • be produced using a suitable XSLT 2.0 compatible engine/utility/IDE. • be based upon a common xml file denoting the category/sub-category structure called structure.xml. • be based upon a common xml file denoting the product details called products.xml. • be produced using an appropriate unique xml style sheet. You may/should create categories and sub-categories for products of your own choosing. This will form the basis of the navigation through your published pages. Your selection should reflect a single overall theme. Sample product content is therefore left to the student as part of the exercise. The production of both structure.xml and products.xml may involve the use of products such as MS Wordpad and MS Notepad. It is therefore necessary to provide suitable XML Schema files to ensure that the xml files used in the publishing are both well-formed and valid: • Schema file for structure.xml provided in structure.xsd • Schema file for products.xml provided in products.xsd The implemented XSL stylesheet(s) will make use of multiple output files and multiple XML input sources. PLEASE HELP ME! Ross