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How do I tell my website to open an XML file based on user-submitted data?

Okay, I’m using Microsoft FrontPage 2003, and I’m trying to set up a weather section on my website using XML feeds from The Weather Channel. My problem is that my hosting company doesn’t support PHP or ASP – so how do I make it so that a user can submit his/her zip code, have that [...]

How do I use xml files in Visual Basic .Net (2008)?

Can someone link me to some good tutorials or ebooks on how to access and work with a website’s API through a WinForms Application. Specifically, i want to use recommendations from www.tastekid.com, which returns a simple xml file when queried. I can’t seem to find any discovery document on the site. Can anyone help me [...]

What were the creators of XML DOM thinking?

Could people have created a more insane and counterintuitive API if they tried? Folks, an XML document is a tree. How hard can this be? How in the world did DOM get so convoluted, and what were its creators thinking? Was their goal to make sure that programmers in every language are equally miserable? Truly, [...]