Export Recordest to XML help, please

RiddleyWalker2 wrote:
> I'm trying to display my database info using Spry in CS4. In CS3 there was a
> utility called "Export Recordest to XML" that was part of the toolkit, but was
> also available as a registration incentive. Is this functionality now built
> into CS4?
>
> I guess what I' m really looking for is a tutorial on how to bring data in
> directly from the database to the webpage. I've seen the video of how to do it
> from a static HTML page, but that doesn't help here.
>
> I've also seen this page
> ( http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/utils/query2xml.html) but it
> doesn't offer any practical info for how to actually implement this into a
> dreamweaver/spry page.
>
> What is frustrating (aside from my own lack of knowledge) is that one of the
> original raison d'?tre for Dreamweaver and its ancestors, was the creation of
> dynamic sites from databases by people who were somewhat programming
> challenged.
>
> Maybe it is all there and I'm just missing it, but I would truly appreciate
> any help.

Once you have your page that creates the xml, just use that link in spry
as your datasource. Ignore the fact that it doesn't end in xml, that
doesn't matter, as the output content type is xml, so it will be treated
like xml.

Dooza
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I know where you're coming from; I am also programming challenged. I
just found that page a couple weeks ago; got it working too. The
challenge, was what to do with that dataset?

I found another page that might help you out but have not, myself, gone
through it. At the bottom of this page are some examples that might help
you out. They look promising. Let me know if it works.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/data_set_overview/index.html