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[chessbot]

Can i have people accessing my website add to my *.xml file? How??

 

[gacaccia]

with an internet web page, an xml source file cannot be updated by visitors if it's a HTML page. however, you could use ASP page or some other server-side technology to accomplish that. the basics would be to, at the time of submission from the web page for a change, create an xmldocument object, load the xml document into it ,then add/edit/delete whatever is posted back from the web page and save the xml document.

something like

dim xdoc as new xmldocument()
xdoc.load("document.xml")
..........
'code to add, edit or delete xml info
..........
xdoc.save("document.xml")

the exact details of the middle section would vary on your needs. but, you'd need to use a request object to get values from the posted form controls (ASP), perhaps use xpath to query the xmldocument object to determine where to add something or what to delete, etc. microsoft's msdn library has a lot of good info/references on how to work with an xml document and how to use xpath. check it out on their web site.

glenn

 

[chessbot]

Thank you--I'll use that