XML for Newbie

**Thing** · Mar 21, 2002, 12:13

Got a quick question for all you XML gurus out there. Ive just started learning XML and have a fairly simple question. Let me show you my code first...

<html>

<body>
<xml
src="trident.xml"
id="xmldso"
async="false">
</xml>

<table datasrc="#xmldso" width="100%" border="1">

<thead>
<th>ID</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Web Site Name</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>URL</th>
<th>Date</th>

</thead>

<tr align="left">
<td><span datafld="ID"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="UserFirst"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="UserLast"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="websitename"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="description"></span></td>
<td><A HREF="<%=a%>"><span datafld="url"></span></A></td>
<td><span datafld="DATE"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

Basically this works great! What I am trying to do is pull the url value from the XML page and place it into a variable. Can someone tell me how this is done. Thank you!

**seanf** · Mar 24, 2002, 09:19

I'm not clear here, do you want to get the variable in ASP?

Sean

**Thing** · Mar 25, 2002, 07:57

Yeah. Basically just want to pull the value into a variable so I can manipulate it. Thanks

**JimBolla** · Mar 25, 2002, 10:41

are you trying to do this serverside or clientside?

**Thing** · Mar 25, 2002, 10:43

server side

**JimBolla** · Mar 25, 2002, 12:09

i'm not sure if that would be the method that would do what you want to do, as the XML file that the HTML page is binding to is not doing any processing on the serverside, the variable "a" really has no meaning.
perhaps do it clientside with something like:

<td><A href="#" onClick="GoTo()"><span datafld="url"></span></A></td>

and then have a javascript function:

function GoTo() {
location.assign(event.srcElement.innerText)
}

or something like that.

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