Posted by Harry Bellafonte on 09/19/07 12:37

On 19 sep, 13:24, Steve Pugh <steve.gru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 19, 10:29 am, Harry Bellafonte <goodmin...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 19 sep, 10:48, David Dorward <dorw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sep 18, 9:45 pm, Harry Bellafonte <goodmin...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > How do I include a xml file into the head tag? I know how to include a
> > > > stylesheet and javascript file but don't have a clue how to include a
> > > > xml file into my html code.
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> > > There are various data formats which are expressed in XML (FOAF, RSS
> > > and ATOM spring to mind) which can be referenced from an HTML document
> > > (although not 'included'). You might also be wanting to do something
> > > with a custom format (perhaps from JavaScript).
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> > > You'll need to provide more information about what you want to achieve
> > > before we can really help.
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> > You are right I will explain why I want this.
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> > I have a flas file ( .swf) file that needs settings that are in the
> > xml file. The flash file will only work if the xml file is in the same
> > directory. The problem is that the web environment (Webshere WCM) in
> > which I am creating the webpages does not allowe to place files ( css,
> > jpg, javascriptfiles, etc) at operating system level. Those files has
> > to be included in the webtool as fileresources. I have created a
> > fileresource for the xml file in the webtool, only that did not work.
> > Thats why I want to include the xml file ( just like I did with the
> > css files and javascript files) in the HEAD tag.
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> Do you know for sure that your SWG can read the XML from the head of
> the HTML document? If not then it may well be a wasted exercise
> working out how to include it there.
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> I've had the same problem a few times recently and the way I solved it
> was to get the SWF altered so that it can pick up the XML file from an
> absolute URL (which is either hard coded in the SWF or passed in as a
> parameter).
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> The other solution is to alter the Webshare WCM configuration to allow
> the placement of the SWF and XML files in the same directory (or
> bypass it by placing them directly on the server via FTP or whatever).
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> Finally as the SWF is acessing the XML over HTTP anyway, you can
> configure your server to redirect from /same-directory-as-swf/the.xml
> to /some-other-directory/the.xml.
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> And, one more thing to check. At least once I ran into a problem where
> the SWF was written assuming that the SWF and the XML file would not
> only be in the same "directory" as each other but would be in the same
> "directory" as the HTML calling the SWF. That sort of assumption is
> often a bad idea (in my case I wanted to call in all assets, including
> SWFs, from a separate host name).
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Hi

No ,I am not sure that the swf will pick up the xml from the HEAD tag.
Its just a wild guess of which I dont know if it will work. All other
things I have tried didn't worked.

How did you altered the swf file? What kind of program did you use?

I guess you know a lot about WCM. Where can I find the configuration
part where I can set to allow the placement of the SWF and XML files
in the same directory?

I hope I can find a way to get the flash file to work because it looks
very nice.

Regards

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