Creating Menu from an XML File

gregory.toland@dmstat.com · Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:01 pm

According to the Milonic home page, "The new menu now uses a fully object oriented based data file for ease of editing and for building menus dynamically from a database and XML files etc". I was wondering how to do this from an XML file?

Gregory

perldev · Post by **perldev** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:58 pm

check out my.msn.com. You will know how. But for Milonic, I don't think you can.

gregory.toland@dmstat.com · Fri Oct 29, 2004 8:09 pm

Then, was does the Milonic home page advertise version 5.0 does that?

rcranswick · Post by **rcranswick** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:15 pm

Unfortunately, I don't have any examples but I suspect it works the same way as building the menu from a database i.e. create an XML file containing the menu items then use something like ASP, ColdFusion etc to parse the XML file and build the menu.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Post by **Andy** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:01 pm

Hi All,

At the moment we only have a PHP sample for building menus from a XML file.

The demo is at http://milonic.com/xml_menu.php

It's a rough cut but seems to be fine.

We are hoping to release a generic web based XML menu using JavaScript to parse the data but getting the data into the browser is proving difficult to do "cross browser". Seems it's classed as a security problem so we may no bother with this. Unless of course we know where Microsoft are heading with regards to new updates.

Cheers
Andy