The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a standard developed by the international organization W3C for placing relatively small amounts of data in text files. Files with the xml extension are more often used as a data source by scripts, but sometimes it becomes necessary to display the data they contain directly in the browser page without using scripts.
Instructions
Step 1
If the XML file is intended to be used by a small group of users (on a corporate, home network, or even on the same computer), it may well be that no additional measures are required. Some browser versions - Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer - can display such files in a tree structure with expandable nodes.
Step 2
Another relatively simple way is to use a separate file with CSS instructions describing the rules for formatting data output from an XML file. To use it, first prepare this file - style sheets in this case are compiled according to the usual CSS rules for standard HTML pages. Then upload the stylesheet to the site server.
Step 3
Open the XML file in any text editor, or even better if you have a specialized editor with syntax highlighting. At the beginning of the code, add another line with a link to the generated CSS stylesheet for this document. For example, if the styles are placed in a file called xmlStyles.css and saved in the same folder as the XML file, the inserted line should look like this:
Step 4
Save the edited XML file and this will complete the operation.
Step 5
Another way to display an XML document is to use the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) style sheet rules. It has several variations (XSLT, XSL-FO, XPath) with different purposes. Using this method, as a rule, also requires the creation of a separate file with instructions describing how to display an XML document. The link to this external file is also placed at the beginning of the document text. In its simplest form, for an external file named xmlStyles.xsl located in the same directory as the main document, this link might look like this:
Of course, the preparation of such a file requires knowledge of the corresponding languages - XSLT, XSL-FO, XPath.
