source code for XML/html

External Since: Apr 06, 2004 Posts: 3

This is what I like to do:
I have an XML database and make a data binding in an HTML page to show the
data in a Table.
So far no problem.
But in that database record there is one field with a large description.
That I like to show in another part of the page or another page.
I like to have one field of a record ("date" for instance) being a
hyperlink to open that datafield with the description.

Is this possible in HTML and/or Javascript?
Can somebody give me some example code?

Wim Vlekken

External Since: Mar 26, 2004 Posts: 13

BillSpots wrote:
> This is what I like to do:
> I have an XML database and make a data binding in an HTML page to
> show the data in a Table.
> So far no problem.
> But in that database record there is one field with a large
> description. That I like to show in another part of the page or
> another page.
> I like to have one field of a record ("date" for instance) being a
> hyperlink to open that datafield with the description.
>
> Is this possible in HTML and/or Javascript?
> Can somebody give me some example code?

The simplest option is to put the data in a title attribute on the tag
containing your date information. It is possible to attach some
javascript at this point to display the information somewhere else on
the page, but the tooltip behaviour of the title attribute is probably
sufficient.

Alternatively the second page display is easy to do (put could be
annoying for the end-user having to jump around between pages). How
large is the 'large' description though? If the description is less than
1000 characters or so (after URL-encoding) then you could append it as a
querystring to the URI of a "display description" page. The description
page can then de-reference the querystring value and display it, this
way saves you a database query. If the description is longer then use
the primary key of the record as the querystring data and do a database
lookup in the "display description" page and get the description data
that way. The usual warnings about passing around bits of SQL
information between client and server apply.
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