Displaying XML in HTML

[TheKub]

I am writing a small module for my website. This module will read an xml feed from the NOAA. Now I have decent grasp of html and I have been reading quite a bit on XML. I can easily pull up the single data entries such as temp, location, and time of reading.

What I am having trouble with is pulling the weather icon. The path to the icon is stored as 2 elements in the XML file.

<icon_url_base>http://weather.gov/weather/images/fcicons/</icon_url_base>
<icon_url_name>bkn.jpg</icon_url_name>

How do I tell the HTML of the page to combine both of these elements into a single IMG statement? Or am I approching this completely wrong?

 

[DaveSimmons]

What are you using to build the server page? Perl, PHP, ASP, ASP.Net, JSP, Flash?

How are you "pulling up" the XML tags now?

 

[TheKub]

Just HTML.


****************************************************
<xml src="PHJR.xml"id="weather">
</xml>

<table datasrc="#weather" border="1">
<tr>
<td><span datafld="temp_f"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="weather"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="icon_url_base" datafld="icon_url_name"></span><span datafld="icon_url_name"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>
********************************************************

 

[DaveSimmons]

Ah, I've never used XML data binding. Does this work?

< ing src=" <span > < span > " >

i.e. does IE still interpret the span tags within a src ?

If not, you may need to use either javascript (if it has XML access functions, no idea) or a real script langauge instead of DHTML.

 

[TheKub]

Yeah I tried combining both spans in the IMG tag and it does not work.

Guess Im off to learn some other language.

Thanks.