for the love of dirt, help me parse xml....please

XCon · Aug 12, 2002

OK,
sorry about the title, I have been frustrated on this. I know nothing about xml, but would really like to learn. Anyway, I am trying to parse this file to an html page to view...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <CoolMon>
- <Raw>
<Uptime>0 days, 02 hrs, 28 mins, 14 secs</Uptime>
<System_Thread_Count>313</System_Thread_Count>
<System_Processes_Count>32</System_Processes_Count>
<PageTotal>617</PageTotal>
<PageUsed>117</PageUsed>
<PageFree>500</PageFree>
<RAMTotal>254</RAMTotal>
<RAMUsed>132</RAMUsed>
<RAMFree>122</RAMFree>
<Processor_Usage>00.00</Processor_Usage>
<Network_Read_Stats>01.35</Network_Read_Stats>
<Network_Write_Stats>00.00</Network_Write_Stats>
<Network_Bytes_Read>39,891.19</Network_Bytes_Read>
<Network_Bytes_Written>41,703.14</Network_Bytes_Written>
<IP_Addresses>10.37.123.01</IP_Addresses>
<Computer_Name>PNS</Computer_Name>
<User_Name>User</User_Name>
<Date_and_Time>Date 12/08/02 Time 16:14</Date_and_Time>
<Blank />
<Drive_Space>31,593</Drive_Space>
<Processor_Type>i686</Processor_Type>
<File_Line_Data />
</Raw>
- <Formatted>
<Item_0>Proc %25: 00.00</Item_0>
<Item_1>Processes: 32 Threads: 313</Item_1>
<Item_2>0 days, 02 hrs, 28 mins, 14 secs</Item_2>
<Item_3>PageUsed: 117/PageTotal: 617</Item_3>
<Item_4>RAMUsed: 132/RAMTotal: 254</Item_4>
<Item_5>Date 12/08/02 Time 16:14</Item_5>
<Item_6>10.37.123.12</Item_6>
<Item_7>PNS</Item_7>
<Item_8>Threads: 313</Item_8>
<Item_9>RAMTotal: 254</Item_9>
<Item_10>RAMUsed: 132</Item_10>
<Item_11>RAMFree: 122</Item_11>
<Item_12>KB Read: 01.35</Item_12>
<Item_13>KB Write: 00.00</Item_13>
<Item_14>Date 12/08/02 Time 16:14</Item_14>
<Item_15>Drive C: 31,593</Item_15>
<Item_16>Processor: i686</Item_16>
</Formatted>
</CoolMon>

Moonbender · Aug 13, 2002

You probably know this, but IE displays XML files in a nice tree-like view ... that might be the easiest thing to do.
The proper technical route would be to use XSL (extensible stylesheet language) which does exactly what you want to do, produce formatted XHTML from an XML file. (Incidently, what IE displays when opening an XML file is just Microsofts default XSL at work.) Learning XSL isn't difficult, especially when you've got some background in programming, XML or at least HTML, but it will take some time nevertheless. If you only want to view this one XML file, then I doubt learning XSL is worth your time.
Finally, you can download one of the many XML editors (Google is your friend), which will help you view the file, and which (I assume) often contain some sort of export option to save the XML as HTML - I doubt it will look much better than in IE, though. There are also a couple of tools that will do what XSL does without actually requiring you to know XSL, you might want to try a Google on that, too.

XCon · Aug 13, 2002

[Q<html>
<head>
<title>PNS Webserver Stats</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
function UpdateReadings(){
dom = new ActiveXObject("Msxml.DOMDocument");
dom.async = false;
dom.load("http://10.37.123.12:61300");
cpu_load.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("Uptime")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
cpu_thread.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("System_Thread_Count")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
cpu_proc.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("System_Processes_Count")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
cpu_pagetotal.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("Item_3")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
cpu_date.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("Item_5")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
cpu_usage.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("Processor_Usage")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
drive_space.innerHTML = dom.getElementsByTagName("Drive_Space")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
}
function CoolMon(){
window.setInterval('UpdateReadings()',5000);
}

</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="CoolMon()"> 

Uptime: 
Threads: 
Processes: 
Page Total: 
Date & Time: 
CPU%: 
Drive Space: 

</body>
</html> [/quote]

I got it,
this does it rather nicely (plain). That's what I wanted.

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