ISO: techniques or examples of visualizing xml

lvirden_at_yahoo.com
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: 11 Mar 2004 15:47:54 GMT

I'm looking for friends with whom I might brain storm about an approach
to take for a personal project.

I've a collection of information which I received in XML format. I
don't believe there is a DTD for the format, and in reality that's
probably okay - the data in there is pretty simple. The format is
quite standard - each database entry is a single xml record, containing
12 attributes. Of the 12 attributes, I see that only 7 or 8 have
interesting information.

What I'm dreaming of is some way to easily parse and display this
data in a tabular fashion, with some hopes of being able to click on a
column in some fashion to get that column to sort (ala a spread***),
and where it is pretty easy to click on a particular row and column
to fully display the info there (9 of the columns are 20 chars or less,
3 are text descriptions that can go on for quite a bit).

It seems to me that the xml should be pretty simple to parse - but I've never
written anything to parse xml before, so I have to learn about one
of the xml extensions and how to use the results of the parse.

I also suspect that making use of something like tktable would help in
the visualization.

Anyone know of any simple examples that might do something like this that
I could use as a learning device?

Also, what other things should I take into consideration when solving a problem
like this? 

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