Tutorial on displaying XML data to HTML page via Spry

With the in-depth study of the integrated Spry function in Dreamweavse cs3, we understand and master some functional modules of the Spry framework, including easily displaying XML data into HTML pages through Dreamweavse cs3 visual operations.
Of course, when it comes to how to insert and display XML data into an HTML page, what usually comes to mind immediately is the data island. For example:

[Ctrl+A Select All Note: If you need to introduce external Js, you need to refresh to execute]

Of course, you can also use XSLT to display XML into the page, but now you use Dreamweaver CS3 integrates Spry function, which can easily embed XML data into HTML, and at the same time, it can also perform XML data reordering, regular data update and non-refresh display, etc. - a standard Spry AJAX application.
1, XML data file: site.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mysite>
    <site>
        <name>CNBRUCE</name>
        <url>http://www.cnbruce.com</url>
        <desc>cnbruce&#39;s blog</desc>
        <atime>2003</atime>
    </site>
    <site>
        <name>DW8</name>
        <url>http://www.dw8.cn</url>
        <desc>About dreamweaver and web</desc>
        <atime>2006</atime>
    </site>
    <site>
        <name>164</name>
        <url>http://www.164.cc</url>
        <desc>Music Blog</desc>
        <atime>2005</atime>
    </site>
</mysite>

2, add "Spry XML Date Set" in Dreamweaver CS3




3, browse in the opened dialog box Select the XML data source , and then click "Get schema" to extract the XML node display. Select the node in the "Row element" to automatically obtain the "XPath" (Note: When different XPaths are selected, the information that can ultimately be displayed is also different. Not the same), select the reference node for classification sorting in the "Sort" column, such as selecting descending or ascending order of time, and in "Options" you can set the automatic update of XML data and display without a refresh mechanism.


#4. After completing the binding of XML data, you can display the XML data (loop) in the HTML page.



Generally speaking, it is easy to get started. It is also very simple to go back to the [Code] view to look at the code. All the work is done by the Spry framework.
However, the current problems and considerations are:
1. The data source of Chinese XML nodes cannot be well supported.
2. The hyperlink displayed by XML in HTML cannot be opened.
3. This needs to be solved. The problem with remote XML data sources is the function similar to RSS aggregation

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