Hi all,

So far, I've gotten a good start on my XML document. This is how it looks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<usa>
  <state>
    <stName>Wisconsin</stName>
    <stCapital>Madison</stCapital>
    <stPopulation>5,250,000</stPopulation>
    <stArea>65,503</stArea>
    <stCounties>
      <county>
        <coName>Dane</coName>
        <coSeat>Madison</coSeat>
        <coPopulation>430,000</coPopulation>
      </county>
      <county>
        <coName>Eau Claire</coName>
        <coSeat>Eau Claire City</coSeat>
        <coPopulation>94,219</coPopulation>
      </county>
    </stCounties>
  </state>
</usa>


The <state></state> tags are what's hanging me up. For every new state, do I have to include those tags? I tried doing so earlier and, although I was not getting any errors, I didn't think it was right due to the fact that even though, the other tags were collapsed, the tag for Florida was showing.

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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Welcome to the New Age

I've got it figured out. Now, I guess the only thing that I'll have trouble with is style sheets and the DTD file I've written. The DTD file is called usa.dtd. For the style sheets, I believe they have to be referenced (i.e. linked) from within the XML document. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance,



Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

I go by this rule of thumb when I construct XML structures: If the item describes it's parent, it should be an attribute. If it can occur multiple times within the parent, then it needs to be a separate node. Here's how I would restructure the XML (If I were asked ;)):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<usa>
  <state name="Wisconsin" capital="Madison" population="5,250,000" area="65,503">
    <counties>
      <county name="Dane" seat="Madison" population="430,000" />
      <county name="Eau Claire" seat="Eau Claire" population="94,219" />
    </counties>
  </state>
</usa>

Within your XML document you add a xml-stylesheet node:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myXSLT.xslt" ?>
<rootXMLNode>
...
</rootXMLNode>


Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Hi Peter,

I have just one question regarding style sheets. Couldn't you include a reference to a CSS stylesheet in the XML file? I haven't gotten around to using XSLT in class yet. My initial thought when I read your reply was that using CSS would be easier for now until I got exposed to XSL.

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access

Sorry, my apologies for missreading your original question about CSS. I jumped the gun.

Yes, you can reference a CSS...
From the Associating Style Sheets with XML documents W3C document:

<LINK href="mystyle.css" rel="style sheet" type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" type="text/css"?>

<LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.css" title="Compact" type="text/css"?>

<LINK href="mystyle.css" title="Medium" rel="alternate stylesheet"
type="text/css">
<?xml-stylesheet alternate="yes" href="mystyle.css" title="Medium"
type="text/css"?>

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Thanks for the help, Peter. I will keep the stuff about XSL in mind when I get around to it

Ben
Madison Area Technical College student
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I am one of those people that you call "Microsoft Access Freaks". I'm addicted to Access