January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
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Tabular Data Binding and XML
When you bind a recordset to an HTML table, the table can display the entire recordset. Here's an example. In this case, I'll bind the data in ch08_03.xml to a table. I start by creating an XML data island, giving the data island the ID of customers:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Tabular Binding with XML Data Islands
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<CENTER>
<H1>
Tabular Binding with XML Data Islands
</H1>
<XML SRC="ch08_03.xml" ID="customers"></XML>
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To bind the data in ch08_03.xml to a table, all I have to do is set a table's DATASRC attribute to customers:
<XML SRC="ch08_03.xml" ID="customers"></XML>
<TABLE DATASRC="#customers" CELLSPACING="10">
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The fields in the records of ch08_03.xml are NAME, CUSTOMER_ID, PURCHASE_DATE ...