webservices

[jrthor2]

Does anyone know if weather.com has a webservice for people to put weather on their own site? Or, does anyone know of any webservice that does this for free?

[buntine]

Theres a few.

http://www.weatherroom.com/add.html
http://www.addresses.com/weather_feeds.php
http://www.liveweatherfeed.com/weathersystem/index.cfm

Regards.

[jrthor2]

Ok, so if I want to use this one:

http://www.weatherroom.com/xml/zip/17036

this gives me an xml file back. How do i use the data in asp 3.0?

Thanks for the help

[buntine]

Load the file from the server..

[jrthor2]

sorry to sound so stupid, but how do you do that?

[buntine]

The relevent documentation will be on the site somewhere. I dont think they would generate the source without informing the user on what to do with it..

Otherwise, take the XMLDOM tutorial at w3schools.com

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_server.asp
or
http://www.topxml.com/xsl/articles/dynamic/dynamic.asp

Regards,
Andrew Buntine.

[jrthor2]

ok, I tried the w3schools link and tried it like this, but I get no data back:


<xml src="http://www.weatherroom.com/xml/zip/17036" id="weatherxml" async="false">
</xml>
<table datasrc="#weatherxml" width="100%" border="1">
<tr align="left">
<td><span datafld="Location"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="Updated"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="temp"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>


can the src be a link to a page? If I take the link out and point to a local xml file, it seems to work.

[Khalid Ali]

try one th elink below,
I have put something together on this topic.
RSS/XML feed (http://www.webapplikations.com/pages/general_utilities.html?menu_id=Products_sub)

[crh3675]

Don't use data islands. Use the XMLHTTP object to retrieve the file and then XSL to parse.