Thanks John, I think I can make some server-side php codes that may grab the remote xml file and transform it to json format. But I have not figured out how to pass the json in php to Exhibit. Do you know or does anyone know how the json data in php can be passed to Exhibit? Thanks, -Guoqian
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Callahan Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Simile-Widgets] Dynamic transformation of XML to Exhibit I believe this is a security measure inside browsers. The xml does not have to be static (e.g., generated from php/sql call) but it does have to be local. You could try Babel (http://simile.mit.edu/babel/), or maybe Yahoo Pipes (to convert the XML into one of the formats Exhibit can import.) Php, or some server-side code, should be able to grab the remote xml file and pass it to Exhibit. Unfortunately, I haven't tried these so I don't have any code. ;) Of course, if you don't need real-time data, you can run a simple script (wget) that downloads the xml to your server, such as on a hourly basis. - John On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Jiang, Guoqian, Ph.D. <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, It seems that Exhibit XML importer only supports local static xml file and does not support a xml url through a web service. If this is true, is there any workaround about a dynamic xml transformation to Exhibit? Thanks, -Guoqian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:simile-widgets%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" 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/simile-widgets?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" 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/simile-widgets?hl=en.
