Posting Data Islands

[Brandt Dainow]

XML Data Islands can populate tables without the author knowing any
JavaScript.  Personally I think they're a great way of letting ordinary web
designers get at XML.  They also provide a way of formatting XML database
output without using either XSL or any scripting, which should enable db'ers
to start getting some simple output straight away.

Data Islands have nothing to do with namespaces at all.

Brandt Dainow
bd at internet-etc.com
Internet Etc Ltd
http://www.internet-etc.com

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev at ic.ac.uk]On
>Behalf Of
>Matthew Sergeant (EML)
>Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 10:44 AM
>To: 'Owen Synge'; XML development
>Subject: RE: Posting Data Islands
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Owen Synge [SMTP:owen.synge at meadowhouse.co.uk]
>>
>> I have been looking at the microsoft web pages (even though
>at hart I am
>> a linux user) for XML examples, unfortunately I am yet to
>work out what
>> to do with data islands once I send them to the client. Can they send
>> them back to my server, or can they save them to disk,
>please help, or
>> if you know a URL to demo these facilitys with out useing
>active server
>> pages I would be most pleased.
>>
>	Am I the only person that has come to the conclusion
>that XML Data
>Islands are a really bad idea? I hope MS see it the same way,
>and deprecate
>them in favour of namespaces instead.
>
>	As an answer to your question, you have to do something
>with them in
>Javascript (or heaven forbid: vbscript). I don't know the IE
>object model
>well enough to know if you can save them to disk, but I'm sure you can
>probably send them back to the server if you really want to.
>
>	Matt.
>
>
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