On Aug 3, 8:14 pm, shadrack <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahh yes, I was just looking at the xml the first time. Sorry about > that, and thanks for the reply! > > I'm assuming the other part of my question may be a bit far-reaching > to expect a quick answer on a post, but I'll try. Is there any way to > reference other xml elements from within the xml? What I mean is, if > I have a marker named A and its associated attributes, and a different > marker named B that includes A in one of its attributes, and I display > marker B, can I somehow reference the attributes of marker A when I > display marker B? This may be confusing, but I'm trying to tie > different markers together that are related through their > attributes...perhaps to highlight connected markers, etc. Thanks > again so much,
My first thought would be to implement an associative array of the markers so I could reference them by id in the xml. Have you seen Mike Williams' tutorial? He has examples of references to markers (in a sidebar), and associative arrays (for the icons). Those might help you figure it out. -- Larry > > Shad > > On Aug 3, 7:58 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Aug 3, 7:26 pm, shadrack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the response and help. I don't see where you have CDATA > > > inside the XML. Can you provide an example of how you include the > > > CDATA elements in the xml? That will undoubtedly work better than > > > what I'm doing. I've used CDATA elements before, but I tried inside > > > the xml, and I couldn't get it to work. Thanks again, > > > Do a view source on this xml (link in my earlier post > > also...):http://www.geocodezip.com/F18CrashSite081208.xml > > > Do you not see the CDATA tags? > > > -- Larry > > > > Shad > > > > On Aug 3, 5:27 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > On Aug 3, 4:58 pm, shadrack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a site that is displaying Google Maps API markers > > > > > (http://www.julieshad.com/so_or_ag/map.htmlutilizinghttp://www.juliesh...) > > > > > by accessing data from XML, parsing it and displaying it. Right now > > > > > I'm using attributes, which I'm finding to be somewhat limiting, and I > > > > > will be expanding my number of markers so I need to decide on a data > > > > > structure. First, in order to put HTML within the attribute (i.e. img > > > > > sr to display a picture), I'm having to use some unorthodox coding to > > > > > place "<", etc. This won't work because I want it to be easy to > > > > > update/ > > > > > change the XML content for people who are novices at HTML. > > > > > I use CDATA elements in XML to allow entry of text "as is". > > > > > Example:http://www.geocodezip.com/GenericMapBrowser.asp?filename=F18CrashSite... > > > > > which uses this xml:http://www.geocodezip.com/F18CrashSite081208.xml > > > > > -- Larry > > > > > > Additionally, a goal of mine is to be able to reference data in the > > > > > XML through other attributes in the XML. For instance, if an attribute > > > > > of one marker has a word that is the name of another marker, I want to > > > > > be able to link to that marker. If you click on the green marker at > > > > > the top, it displays "Amuse" and "Arbor House". These are the > > > > > "connections" attribute of the marker named "Brian's Green Thumb...". > > > > > Since "Amuse" is the exact name of another marker, I'd like to access > > > > > the attributes of "Amuse" through a link or something. Is this making > > > > > sense? And is it possible? > > > > > > So, in general I'd like to find a better and easier way to organize my > > > > > data for display. Mysql may be nice, but I want to avoid setting up a > > > > > database and maintaining that if possible. Will a more robust > > > > > application of xml be better, like using more elements vs. a lot of > > > > > attributes? Or maybe just a comma-separated value .txt file may be > > > > > better, but hard to believe. I'm not an expert coder so I need > > > > > something that works with Google Maps fairly well. Thanks for any > > > > > time, and I'll gladly help explain further if questions, > > > > > > Shad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
