I have XML feeds, how do i use them

[Cobby]

Hello, I have recently formed a few new online companies, in short they are overseas property companies. We originally brought into a franchise that were supposed to provide us with the properties, i am a webdesigner and have made our sites but i was under the impression that they would provide a "front end" to the property data, i.e the search form. For this and other reasons we decided not to continue to deal with them, lost a lot of money.

PLAN B was "www.themovechannel.com" They offered us 45,000 overseas properties with details, pictures, everything! AND the clincher was they would supply a "white lable" website which is basically the different search pages and forms that would site on our website in an iframe. This was the perfect solution, however they are no longer able to produce this white lable service, instead all i have are the XML feeds/documents and schemas.

I simply have no idea how i use this raw data, heres the really good bit, we have spent £££'s on advertising our new sites which are overdue for launch and although i have property data, i have no way of showing it to our potential customers!

I concider myself to be fairly IT literate and a proficiant web designer as far as HTML and other little snippets of scripts go. However i just dont know where to start!

I get the impression i need to take this XML data, which is updated weekly, import it into some kind of database and then somhow create a webpage front end that querys the database?

Anyway, if anyone can either help me or is willing to take the job on if it is beyond me doing it then please get in touch.

Thanks for your time, Paul

[Dököll]

Greetings and salutations!

You've come to the right place, of course minus the load of money. If you need help, we can help you. To build you a program however is not what we do. Please ask questions and stay tuned. We bid you welcome!

[Cobby]

Hello, thank you for your welcome, please don't missunderstand me, i am eager to learn but i am on a very limited timescale so although i would appreciate learning XML and Databases step by step, i think we may be here a while! lol Given that, i dont want somone to do it all for me, just somone who understands what i need to do and explain how to do it, point me to some tutorials or somthing for each stage? I am trying importing data into MS access but i dont even think thats working correctly.

If somone could point me to a developer or somthing i think this is my only option at this point, unless there is a quick fix out there (fingers crossed)

Thanks, Paul

[learnxml]

Hello, thank you for your welcome, please don't missunderstand me, i am eager to learn but i am on a very limited timescale so although i would appreciate learning XML .......... I am trying importing data into MS access but i dont even think thats working correctly.

Hello Cobby,
If I understand your problem is that you have some xml files online and you want to transform into html, is it right?
If yes you do not need to import your xml files into a database you just could read them and transform them on the fly into HTML. It is not complicated, I did it with AJAX, but you can also use PHP + Sablotron, or just PHP5 with simplexml.
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[Dököll]

Hello, thank you for your welcome, please don't missunderstand me, i am eager to learn but i am on a very limited timescale so although i would appreciate learning XML and Databases step by step, i think we may be here a while! lol Given that, i dont want somone to do it all for me, just somone who understands what i need to do and explain how to do it, point me to some tutorials or somthing for each stage? I am trying importing data into MS access but i dont even think thats working correctly.

If somone could point me to a developer or somthing i think this is my only option at this point, unless there is a quick fix out there (fingers crossed)

Thanks, Paul

Hi Cobby!

I understand the urgency. Please start here: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp Do not hesitate to ask questions when they become available. w3schools is wonderful/friendly establishment specific to basic and amateur style programming: http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp Give it a whirl then pause questions as I said. Thanks for your patience.

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