Internet Explorer 5.0 XML Data Source Object

Install the Internet Explorer 5.0 XML Data Source Object sample.

Requirements

This sample requires Internet Explorer 5.0 and Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000.

Description

The XML Data Source ActiveX Object (DSO) can be inserted into an HTML page as follows:

<OBJECT width=0 height=0
    classid="clsid:550dda30-0541-11d2-9ca9-0060b0ec3d39"
    id="xmldso">
</OBJECT>

This can be used as an XML data provider in conjunction with the data binding features of Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0 . for binding XML data to HTML element on the page.

To load XML into the DSO use the XMLDocument property to get a DOM object model then call the load method, as follows:

<SCRIPT for=window event=onload>
    var doc = xmldso.XMLDocument;
    doc.load("books.xml");
    if (doc.documentNode == null)
    {
        HandleError(doc);
    }
</SCRIPT>

Inline XML

You can also provide the XML inline inside the OBJECT tag in which case you can load the DSO as follows:

<SCRIPT for=window event=onload>
    var doc = xmldso.XMLDocument;
    doc.loadXML(xmldso.altHtml);
    if (doc.documentNode == null)
    {
        HandleError(doc);
    }
</SCRIPT>

Examples

The following example pages show how the applet works:

Example 1	A simple HTML table populated by an external XML file
Example 2	The same table populated by inline XML data
Example 3	Nested HTML tables populated by hierarchical XML data
Example 4	Editing the XML using bound INPUT fields
Example 5	Report writer style of binding
Example 6	Accessing the XML object model through JavaScript
Example 7	Viewing XML data one record at a time using the recordset object model
Example 8	Linking multiple XML DSOs together to view different parts of the XML document.
Example 9	Hooking editable fields up to a live updating table
Example 10	Same as Example 7, but editable