Displaying ADO Retrieved Data with XML Islands
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An XML data island is a piece of well-formed XML embedded into an HTML file. This article will show you how to retrieve data in an XML format from a database using ADO; you will also learn how to bind this data into an HTML document.
Introduction
The previous tutorial, The Why and How of XML Data Islands, considered embedding a well formed XML fragment into an HTML file to create an XML data island. The article also showed how one could access data embedded in the XML file. The tutorial also described data binding to various HTML tags. However the XML data used was a hard-coded XML fragment.
In this tutorial, how data in XML format can be retrieved from a database using ADO will be described. The XML data obtained using ADO will be reviewed. An example of how Jet Data types are associated with XML data types will be shown. This will be followed by how to use the data to bind it to an HTML document. After all, this is what the client is after. It will be helpful if the reader reviews the previous article and the XML related articles to which you can find links on this site.
Data to XML Conversion using ADO
Persisting data in the XML format is one of the most important features of ADO since the 2.5 version. This means that ADO recordsets can be saved as an XML file to a location of your choice. Alternatively they can also be saved to a Stream object. Since the data is derived from a database together with the data, the data structure comes with it. Ideally this format should be able to be transparently used by any machine.
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