Help with Understanding XSL for importing HTML dat

[ht354]

Hi, I am new to FMP and certainly nerwer to XSL. I want to be able to load in data from a non XML web page that does have consistant captions before the information I desire. For example couild I import information from this web page

"http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Wine_Ratings/Search_Results/1,1263,,00.html?text_search_flag=winery&winery=&search_by=all&Varietal=v11%3ABarbera&Price=10&Vintage=&type-region-search-code=&spec_des=&sort_by=score&taste_date=&rowincrement=25&Submit=Submit&rowbegin=1&rowend=0"

I suspect that I could use XSL to further format the data and use the XML import.

My question is how do I set up an XSL transform? Can it be done, or does someone have an example to illustrate it being done with a non XML web page?

Thanks in advance. I could really use some help on figuring this out.

Jeff

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[Garry Claridge]

The Filemaker site has some examples which can be downloaded. These show how to Import and Export using XSLT.

All the best.

Garry

[ht354]

I've looked at the stuff, but I was looking for a more concrete example and one that included my scenerio which was as follows . . .

Hi, I am new to FMP and certainly nerwer to XSL. I want to be able to load in data from a non XML web page that does have consistant captions before the information I desire. For example couild I import information from this web page

"http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Wine_Ratings/Search_Results/1,1263,,00.html?text_search_flag=winery&winery=&search_by=all&Varietal=v11%3ABarbera&Price=10&Vintage=&type-region-search-code=&spec_des=&sort_by=score&taste_date=&rowincrement=25&Submit=Submit&rowbegin=1&rowend=0"

I suspect that I could use XSL to further format the data and use the XML import.

My question is how do I set up an XSL transform? Can it be done, or does someone have an example to illustrate it being done with a non XML web page?

Thanks in advance. I could really use some help on figuring this out.

Jeff

[email protected]

[Anatoli]

IMHO -- no you cannot import that page. That page has to be prepared with special way with web services enabled, something like Amazon.com.

XML is great concept, but both sides must agree on exchange concept.

[Garry Claridge]

I've had a look at the page. It would be very difficult; if not impossible with XSLT.

You may be able to write something else, to parse the page, in PHP or Java. This would convert it to XML or just TAB delimited text.

Good Luck.

Garry