index.xml Index file Styling XML using XSL I have been reading "XML for Dummies" by Ed Tittel. This has allowed me to render a nice style in Mozilla from the XML file that calls a XSL style sheet. There is a DTD that controls the definition of the XML. Need to add links to the XML document There are a number of enhanced features for doing linkages within an XML document and also to the outside, a kind of hyperlink on steroids! The style for this rendition of the XML I was able to do farily sophistocated formatting in a few commands including setting colors, font sizes, style, and fully justify the text of the paragraphs. I was able to set the background color to pink, the font color to navy, quite pretty, really, and set right and left margins and font sizes for the XML elements. Catching errors from XML and then trapping the HTML I found out that XML complains in a reasonable way if you forget to make well-formed XML, such as leaving off a balancing end tag. I have also learned that most OSs come with some command that outputs the transformation of the XML from XSL, in this case that would be an HTML stream that could be captured into a file. Note for 10/24/2005: XML pointers, PhP on Mac OS X I am extending this beyound one page of display to see if the simpilest element indexing works. It would be something like "051019#/1/5" to point at this paragraph. We will see... and nothing is ever so simple! The scheme appears to not to work at all. The goal is to impliment within file navigation the way one does it in an HTML document with internal links. As long as there is a style sheet, the effect should be similar. I am not defining linkage correctly. This is a new paragraph object. Yesterday and today I had some modest success at getting PhP to work with apache and safari on Mac OS X 1.4 on a Mac Mini. The PhP scripts do work, but as soon as I try to use forms to post to the server, they work once, sort of, then fail as though apache has forgotten that it should do somethig with php files. It is quite disheartening.