Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-04 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Rodrigo Dominguez wrote: I'm writting an application, a control panel for a web site, and it will be great if I can separe data from presentation, I know that I have to work with XML and XSL but I didn't understand how it works. Can you give me a simple example? Let guess that a client request

Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-04 Thread Rodolfo Gonzalez
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Geoff Hankerson wrote: Spend some time learning about xml and you won't regret it Sorry for the off topic, but in fact XML is not that hard to learn, it's just custom markup that needs to follow certain rules. The important part is the parser or the program logic to work

[PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-03 Thread Taylor York
Ok, Help me out on this one. As far as i can tell, xml documents store data..pretty much just a dababase. Now please, correct me on anything I say incorrectly...But i just cannot seem to grasp the point of using XML over MySQL. Can anyone direct me to a page with xml in use? Something that can

Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-03 Thread Geoff Hankerson
Can anyone direct me to a page with xml in use? Something that can help me grasp what its all about. I didn't understand xml at all until I started using it . I asked pretty much the same question as you (what is it good for?). Now I will almost always use xml in any app I work on.

Re: [PHP] XML vs Everything Else

2002-09-03 Thread Rodrigo Dominguez
I'm writting an application, a control panel for a web site, and it will be great if I can separe data from presentation, I know that I have to work with XML and XSL but I didn't understand how it works. Can you give me a simple example? Let guess that a client request index.php, and I have