xml in flash and html

[monkonfire]

Hi

I'm creating a site that has a news page displaying xml content in flash - i'm
using this so it can be updated externally. I need to create a second news page
that the user is redirected to if they do not have a flash plug-in - this will
be a html page. Is it possible that the same xml files are imported into this
page and formatted with the same css so i don't have to create and update two
files ? or am I going about this the wrong way ?

ta

[Jamesabth]

You can use JavaScript or PHP/ASP/JSP/ColdFusion (ie most server side scripting
languages). A server side script is usually better as it doesn't rely on the
client having JavaScript, but you are probably using JavaScript for Flash
detection anyway. I would still recommend using a server side script, if you
can on your hosting server.

If you have Dreamweaver and you decide to use server side scripting - it will
do all of the scripting for you!

James

[monkonfire]

Hi James

thanks for responding

please excuse the idiot - that being me - so what would you recommend is the
simplest and best way of displaying the same information from 1 document (i was
going to use xml) in 1 flash page and 1 html page formatted by the same CSS
file ?

any tips or directions to tutorials would help mucho ta

J

[Jamesabth]

XML and a server side script would be the simplest if you have a program like
Dreamweaver. This would involve two simple steps:

1) Creating an XSLT (.xsl) file that reads and positions the XML data.
2) Reading the XSLT file with a server side script and including the XML in
the page body.