XML Feeds Into oScommerce

[cheshire_trader]

Hi there,

Firstly I am a newbie to this forum and the world of XML, so forgive any newbie statements...lol

I am looking to use XML feeds to populate my oscommerce store inc Stock, quantity, attributes etc (basically everything the feed from my supplier has to offer).

However i do not know a thing about this and need someone to walk me thru it with some dummy instructions (xml feeds for dummies).

I have started to add the products in manually but with a few more projects to go i need to learn how to do this to save time.

Before i do this though i need to check the following:

1) Using a feed can I control the formatting of the inserted products?
2) Can i still control things with other osc contributions (for example show out of stock products just with out of stock notofocation etc)?
3) Will the use of these feeds will i lose any controlling aspects of the store?

Thanks and hopefully someone will have the knowledge and patients to help me out and I can use and benefit from the help and pass it on

[cheshire_trader]

Just found a helpfull thread and now checking with my server support as created a test.php showing:

<?
echo function_exists("domxml_open_file") ? "true" : "false";
?>

and when executed I got a false returned