Publish changing XML as HTML

Hi,
I have an XML file that gets updated regularly. I want to
publish it in an HTML page.
I attempted to us Spry but got confused. Is there an easy way
to publish the XML file and when it gets updated to display new
data?
thanks.

sj,
If all you need is a Table and Text, with no special Numbers features, sure you can, if you're willing to take a detour through TextEdit.
You can make a table in Numbers, Copy/Paste to TextEdit, add whatever text is needed, and Save to HTML. Here's an example, in Safari, of a table that began in Numbers and was pasted into TE then saved as HTML:
Regards,
Jerry

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I am preparing to use servlet and Jsp to convert xml to html,
but I wonder how to make the convertion.
Since the xml source is not in well design,
I would like to ask what does the suitable way to do.
The xml source is about the typesetting in a page.
<book> element indicate a book
<page> - element indicate a page
attribute:
id - id of the page
height - height of the page
width - width of the page
<area> element indicate a area
attribute:
pos - in the form of "x1, y1, x2, y2",
(x-coordindate starting from left side of the page)
(y coordinate starting form top side oft the page)
<line> element indicate a line
attribute:
start - the x-coordinate, starting from left
width - the width of the line
<words> element indicate a word
attribute:
top - the y-coordinate, starting from top
height - the height of the words
all of them are defined as empty tag, except <book>
example:
<book>
     <page id=1 height=100, width=200/>
     <area pos"10,10,20,20"/>
     <line start=11 width=5/>
     <words top=11, height=5>
     word1
     <words top=16, height=2/>
     word2
     <page id=2 height=100, width=250/>
</book>
I would like to transfer page, area, line+words into 3 different of layer in html.
I have try to use xslt style sheet (xsl),
but I find difficulty getting information from element to form a layer and building up the template.
For example, how can I get attributes info from two elements and generate a layer(html).
Or, does it better to do the transformation in servlet and read the xml as a DOM tree?
Furthermore, I would like to ask does it need much time to convert source to html,
as there is nearly 4 thousand line in a xml file?
Thanks!!

Steve tks for Your suggestions, but my problem is a little different from the one You illustrate (or I didn't understand well Yur suggestion).
1 - I don't use BC4J in this project
2 - I don't need to insert data in the DB but only receive the data from an HTML form as a XML Document.
I understand the idea You gave me would be a good basis for the solution but I don't understand how I can apply it.
TIA
Tullio

Why can't Apple make 'publish changes only' for non .mac users?

The recent iWeb update to 1.1 and the now increasingly obvious differential between .mac and non .mac features has prompted me to post here today.
I can understand comments, passwords and search facilities being a .mac only experience because it requires server side technology. I can also understand that .mac users get enhanced features like slideshows as well.
But why is the fundamentally *basic* option to 'publish the changes only' not available to non .mac users?
I know uploading to .mac uses a different protocol to uploading via FTP, but I don't think it is about that. Obviously the software engine in iWeb 1.1 can now track the pages that have changed, and flag those for uploading. So if the facility to do this is not available with non .mac uploading, is this some form of crippleware? Can any software engineers comment on this or am I talking off the top of my head? [And please mods, don't delete this post - I use the word 'crippleware' in its harshest form, clearly I can still use iWeb to make fantastic websites - I am asking a technical question here.]
Michael
A Trusty Quicksilver G4 Dual 1GHz

OK, from reading this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=486335&tstart=0
There is a pattern: An error occurred while publishing file “/blah/blah", while file "/blah/blah" seems to be random from one person to the next, but they all share one thing and that is communication protocol.
For iWeb to be able to publish changes to .Mac, it has to:
1. identify if the file exists
2. do the following:
2a. if not exists, copy it to .Mac
2b. if exist, do some sort comparison - CRC checksum -
2b1. if checksums match, don't copy
2b2. if checksums don't match copy it to .Mac
At least I think that's what going on, I don't have .Mac so that is best I can think of. Perhaps, some Apple SW engineers can jump in here.
Now, the bad part is iWeb has to (and I'm assuming iWeb uses WebDAV):
1. go thru each file locally
2. crawl its way into .Mac (WebDAV is a slow protocol) to find the the counter part.
3. when it finds a file that matches a client side file, it has to (some how) do checksum on-the-fly across the net work (which is slow and congested)
#3 is I think where it failed, there are many factors here: 1) networks congestion 2) latency 3) protocol overhead 4) checksum calculation time etc...
iWeb eventually times out because any/all of the above.
It's nice that WebDAV can author to the host yada, yada, but it's so SLOOOOOW.
What I would do is for every publishing, I would build a files and their checksums keep it on the host (or local, must be hidden).
For subsequence publishing, I would (use a fast protocol like FTP) download this pre-built files/checksums list. Locally, do a full publishing, making checksum comparison, the result is delta changes; upload only those. Build a new files/checksums list upload that too.
What I mean to say is offload everything that is possible to local machine, bandwidth is PREMIUM!

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