prototype XML news module

parawizard

here is my prototype News Module that I have made.

http://members.shaw.ca/kow49/news/news.xml

what do you think?

uses a XML database

goldbug

Shows up as plain text. Consider using the correct MIME type if you want it to really be XML. (text/xml, not text/plain like you are sending)

parawizard

Originally posted by goldbug
Shows up as plain text. Consider using the correct MIME type if you want it to really be XML. (text/xml, not text/plain like you are sending)

hmmmm hey i swear i posted a reply to this the other day 😕 o well. Im not sure what you mean by corret MIME type. I used www.w3schools.com to learn XML and XSL. my XML, XSL are below, maybe you could spot my problem 🙂 I think you want me to add a content header also?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!-- Copyright 2004-2010 by Parawizard Web Design -->
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="news.xsl"?>
<articles>
		<article>
			<title>Big Stupid Bike Race 2003</title>
        	<date>Jan 19, 03</date>
        	<content>     hey, this is the first and most  prior  news article for Parawizard Forums NEWS module!content>
        	<author>Parawizard</author>
        </article>
		<article>
			<title>MTB Site Online!</title>
        	<date>Jan 19, 03</date>
        	<content>	heyheyhey, this new site just rawks ( you can delete these test in the xml file :) )</content>
        	<author>Parawizard</author>
		</article>
</articles>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!-- Copyright 2004-2010 by Parawizard Web Design -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <head>
     	 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="CSS\news.css"/>
  </head>
<body>
	<table id="newsmodule">
    	<tr>
        	<td id="header" align="left"><img src="news.bmp"></img></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
<xsl:for-each select="/articles/article">
    <table id="main">
    	<tr>
      		<td id="articletitle"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
      		<td id="articledate"><xsl:value-of select="date"/></td>
    	</tr>
    </table>
    <table id="articlecontent">
    	<tr>
       		<td id="articlecontent">
       			<p id="articlecontent"><xsl:value-of select="content"/><BR/><BR/><I id="author">-<xsl:value-of select="author"/></I></p>
            </td>
    	</tr>
    </table>
</xsl:for-each>
	<BR/>
    <BR/>
	<table id="copyright">
    	<tr>
        	<td id="copyright">
            <CENTER>
            <p id="copyright">Copyright 2004-2010 by Parawizard Web Design</p>
            </CENTER>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>


  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

goldbug

It's not the content of your files, but your server config that needs work. In the HTTP Response header, it's sending the content type as text/plain, not text/xml. You need to find a way to correct that, either through the PHP header() function, or via .htaccess/httpd.conf

Any browser that gives a crap about content-type (read: not IE), might render it as plain text (markup shown) as it currently stands.

parawizard

Originally posted by goldbug
It's not the content of your files, but your server config that needs work. In the HTTP Response header, it's sending the content type as text/plain, not text/xml. You need to find a way to correct that, either through the PHP header() function, or via .htaccess/httpd.conf

Any browser that gives a crap about content-type (read: not IE), might render it as plain text (markup shown) as it currently stands.

o thanks goldbug. Im hosting it on a shaw cable account i get 10mbs free with my net connection 🙁 . they really need the fix their damn web space up! I have made my own LAN server but still waiting for this used server box i might be getting soon. Thanks for the explanation on the MIME type. I would guess apache server would have this set up correctly default?