XML / Apache questions

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Vu Pham wrote:
>Sorry for this stupid question. Never worked on this before.
>
>There is a requirement to input data via XML/Apache. I am reading some XML
>stuff, and at the same time I have some questions to make thing clearer. 
>
>1. Will I send data to a remote web server via a XML file ?
>2. From the client side ( where data will be sent from ), will that action
>be able to do via a command line ?
>3. If so, what tool helps me to do that ( the client side - my side - is
>Linux ) ?
>4. My server may also needs to receive data. Then what tool will go with
>Apache ( I have Apache on my server ) to receive/parse these XML and write
>it to a raw text file ?

How long is a rope?

It sounds like you need to do some studying on XML.  You might
begin with an overview such as the book ``XML Processing with
Perl, Python, and PHP'' by Martin C. Brown.  I would recommend
checking bookpool.com, probably the least expensive place to get
technical books, and do searches on XML and XSLT -- a very
versatile template system that allows one to map XML to
practically anything.

You may also want to look at XML-RPC, a very simple transport to
do remote procedure calls using XML to pass information to an
from the server.  SOAP is a far more ambitious system to provide
web services.

Bill
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