Re: Newbie - advice asked

[Guy Murphy <guy-murphy@easynet.co.uk>]

Hiya.

You'll get possibly lots of different flavours of answer, and no one answer
is "right".

What I'll contribute, is for somebody getting their toes wet with XML/XSL
using ASP and the MS parser is very quick and easy, and there are plenty of
examples on MSDN of doing just this.

Cheers
    Guy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Cc: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug.Hewko@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:51 AM
Subject: Newbie - advice asked


> Hi!
>
> I would like some advice on how to go about expanding my knowledge in XML.
I
> am playing around with a intranet site and hopefully can put it into
> production some time. Very basic and it uses client-side XML. Our standard
> platform is MS IE 5.5 without plug-ins, so I am quite limited. I did
install
> the new MSXML4 parser, but it only runs in side-by-side mode. Upgrading 10
> 000 computers to the new parser is pretty much an impossibility, so my
> client-side XML will always have a limited audience.
>
> My eventual goal is to have something that can be displayed as easily on a
> Palm or cell phone as on a personal computer.
>
> I just found out that one of my development servers supports ASP, so I can
> try to create server-side XML code. I do not know what version of parsers
> the servers use; I'm still trying to figure out how to test if I can have
> server-side XML on them. (All I did was a simple ASP file to get the time,
> and a ASP file to output an XML structure to my browser.)
>
> My question is should I jump into ASP and use that for server-side XML,
> should I download XALAN and use that, or should I try to get the MSXML4 to
> work and use some of the cool XML features such as variables?
>
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