Html/xml coding help for SMIL

Question

We are just switching over to using Flash and I've got a
Event URI but my hosting company is having trouble on how to show
the player/stream on our webpage. Is there a sample I can show them
for the below stream I've got out there?
http://hwcdn.net/e7a4h6n3/fls/10403-Backstop.smil

Answer 1

You could do this in a servlet. This is the general idea.
1 Take the xml file that is suppose to be change and create a DOM representation. The following creates a
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = db.parse("myfile.xml");
2 Then extract the request parameter names and there values and from the request name and value create a node. This node must match an element definition in the DTD of the xml that has been parsed into the DOM otherwise the xml will become invalid.
Enumeration enum = req.getParameterNames();
while(enum.hasMoreElements())
String reqName = (String)enum.nextElement();
String value = req.getParameter(reqName);
//Construct an element from these values
Element reqElement = document.createElement(reqName);
Node reqValue = document.createTextNode(value);
//Add the request value to the element
reqElement.appendChild(reqValue);
3 Then you will want to place this node in the correct part of the dom. I think you can search through the DOM for the correct node, and then add the node to the correct part of the tree e.g
node.appendChild(reqElement);
You will then have to revalidate the xml document.
4 You can then write out the change xml file to disk using the transform method of javax.xml.Transform.Transformer to output a DOM to a text file. See the JAXP tutorial section using XSLT to do this.