importing xml data in FP2003

[peter]

I've just bought FP2003 and am using it on Win XP Pro. I
want to import XML data (from another site) into a page.
I've tried using "Insert data view" but a message says I
need "Windows Sharepoint Services". It seems that I need
to purchase Windows 2003 server in order to get this -
but this is a huge cost for my simple home system.

Is there anyway of importing XML data from an external
site without forking out huge amounts of money to MS?

 

[Jim Buyens]

-----Original Message-----

I've just bought FP2003 and am using it on Win XP Pro. I
want to import XML data (from another site) into a page.
I've tried using "Insert data view" but a message says I
need "Windows Sharepoint Services". It seems that I need
to purchase Windows 2003 server in order to get this -
but this is a huge cost for my simple home system.

Is there anyway of importing XML data from an external
site without forking out huge amounts of money to MS?

This obviously depends on what you want to do with the XML
data. In general, though, you would either:

o Write an ASP page that loaded the XML data into
a parser (such as MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP) and then
traversed the parsed data, ran XSL transforms,
or whatever.

o Write an ASP.NET page that loaded the XML data into
an ADO.NET dataset, and then bound the dataset to
form Web controls, XSL-transformed it, or whatever.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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