Tabular Data Binding and XML

When you bind a recordset to an HTML table, the table can display the entire recordset. Here's an example. In this case, I'll bind the data in ch08_03.xml to a table. I start by creating an XML data island, giving the data island the ID of customers:

<HTML> 
    <HEAD>
        <TITLE>
            Tabular Binding with XML Data Islands
        </TITLE>
    </HEAD>

    <BODY>
        <CENTER>
            <H1>
                Tabular Binding with XML Data Islands
            </H1>

            <XML SRC="ch08_03.xml" ID="customers"></XML>
            .
            .
            .

To bind the data in ch08_03.xml to a table, all I have to do is set a table's DATASRC attribute to customers:

            <XML SRC="ch08_03.xml" ID="customers"></XML> 

             <TABLE DATASRC="#customers" CELLSPACING="10">
             .
             .
             .

The fields in the records of ch08_03.xml are NAME, CUSTOMER_ID, PURCHASE_DATE ...

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