XML Tutorial >> XML Data Island.

We can embed some kind of files like audio flash etc.  And the same, we can embed and XML file and this is happen with <xml> element.  Process of this file ambition is called XML Data Island. In this procedure we will use an external XML document and use it as we use the CSS and XSL.  For example we have following XML document.

Now and other HTML file will use the above Employees XML.  In HTML we will use <xml> tag to define an XML Data Island and for this purpose we have two attributes in HTML <xml> tag, one is its id and second is its source, as we use a source of any CSS or XSL.  ID attribute will be use in other HTML tags to retrieve data from XML document   To retrieve data we will bind the ID of xml tag to the HTML tags as shown in below example of HTML.

On the above HTML code we can see that we have first created an id of XML document with the <xml> tag and define its source file with an attribute of "src" then we start a table and bind it with its an attribute of "datasrc".  This attribute will bound the entire data of XML document with HTML table and for display it we again need to specify each element of XML document that's why we use the <span> tag in table <td>, table <td> tag have no any attribute to bind itself with XML data so we used span tag and the span tag have an attribute of "datafld" to specify Data Field we will use this attributes as we know in our Employees XML we have three elements FirstName LastName and gender that's why we have used three <span> tags and bind them with one by one XML elements.  For more details you can click here for HTML document and see its view source, here you will see how to make more formatting with XML Data Island and express it as good as you can.  Look a external Employees XML document here.