Hi everyone,

I am implementing a travel booking engine on my site, and there is an option to utilize an XML feed. This would enable hotel and vacation package deals to automatically update on my website.

The problem is that I don't understand the instructions, and have tried to figure it out since I've only done HTML coding.

They told me to construct a URL such as this (for example):

http://travel.travelsitex.com/daily/30001/deals/getdeals.asp?eapid=12345&dest=178229|178229|603260 |602663|602980|178229|602871|601722|178230&numdeal s=1&cat=general

Then, they say you get specific results - a whole page of tags and closing tags, starting with <?xml version="1.0" encoding ="ISO-8859-1" ?>

The main question I how I get this into the coding of my site. I'm sure it is a very easy question, but I just have no clue how to get this to actually feed what I want into my site. When I try to put the <?xml ..... ?> code into my html document it doesn't show up right.

Thank you for ANY HELP you might be able to provide.

Talk to ya later,

Dean Packingham,
http://www.travelhunters.com

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

Thanks for the great link! This will come in very handy.

I still can't quite figure out my problem. Is there anyone who would mind emailing me so that I can email the code? Basically, my problem is this: I construct the URL, click on it, and it gives me the XML "code".

When I try to plug in all this code as is, nothing displays on my site.

I am so desparate for help, as I'd like to get this going.

If there is someone who charges for this kind of help, just let me know. If I can get this solved, I would surely consider it.

Thanks again,

Dean
dean@travelhunters.com
http://www.travelhunters.com

Could you provide a link to the actuall XML thats output to the browser. This could be an RSS, SOAP WSDL, XML-RPC feed in which case there are plenty of free scripts out there to handle these things. If its simply someone's propietary XML then you would have to write a custom handler to parse the XML and retrieve the relevant information.

Thank you so much!

Is there any way I could email you? It's proprietary, so I don't want to post it on here if possible.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

Dean
dean@travelhunters.com

You might want to look at XSLT - It transforms one type of XML into another type basically. Most of the time thats standard XML to XHTML. There's a good tutorial on the w3schools site. Beware though, it's supposed to be one of the hardest things to learn - I've only had a dabble in it, but I'd agree.

You can PM me via the board here.