Data Feeds, how do I add to a site?

In article <brst1p$at5$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, dorward RemoveThis @yahoo.com
says...
 > Grytpype-Thynne wrote:
  > > I have received an email today from a company I am an affiliate with
  > > offering a data feed, how can I add to the website I am webmaster for?
 >
 > That depends on the format the feed is offered in, and possibly the server
 > side scripting environment on your system.
 >
 >
They say they offer 3 options for the download format: Text, Excel and
XML. I don't know yet what the host provides in server side scripting
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Grytpype-Thynne said:

 > I have received an email today from a company I am an affiliate with
 > offering a data feed, how can I add to the website I am webmaster for?

ask the company that is offering the feed

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Grytpype-Thynne wrote:

 > They say they offer 3 options for the download format: Text, Excel and
 > XML.

How vague. It rather depends how the data is structured, XML is likely to be
the best bet as there are plenty of XML processing tools out there.

 > I don't know yet what the host provides in server side scripting
 > environment

You'll need to find that out then (unless you want to preprocess the data at
another site[1] and upload only static pages)

[1] e.g. your office workstation

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