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updating xml file from .net to godaddy webhost

12-Jan-11 22:10

Why not nest each image in a DIV, then nest the six DIVs in a DIV.
Then you set up an onmouseover call in CSS.

RachelSo11-Jan-11 16:52

RachelSo

11-Jan-11 16:52

I just built a .NET program that generates a xml rss webpage. I’d love to be able to update this webpage programmatically via .NET ie login to my godaddy account and update a webpage; all within .NET
Since Im new to webhosting I wanted to know if its even possiable, and if it is I need some advice on the best way to go about doing this.

Re: updating xml file from .net to godaddy webhost

cjoki12-Jan-11 4:43

cjoki

12-Jan-11 4:43

Not sure about .NET, but I know it can be done in PHP. You just have to think about your output as generating a php script instead of generating just HTML. When a browser calls the page it is ran through the php engine.

I did something like this a long time ago with a template system I made that would include/exclude javascript in a given page based on parameters that where passed to the frameworks header function call.

Chris J
www.redash.org

Re: updating xml file from .net to godaddy webhost

R. Giskard Reventlov12-Jan-11 5:17

R. Giskard Reventlov

12-Jan-11 5:17

This should be fairly straightforward providing you have the requisite permissions to write to the file within your folder system. There are plenty of tutorials on the web for this stuff: Google[^].

"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
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Is this a valid HTML tag?

Alan Burkhart9-Jan-11 10:46

9-Jan-11 10:46

I occasionally get a forwarded email from an AOL user in which the forwarded msg is a .eml attachment. When this occurs, the body of the msg displays the HTML code instead of just the content (in my Yahoo Mail interface). If I click the attachment and open it with Windows Mail, any images are replaced by this tag: <=p>

Never saw this tag before, and I see nothing about it on the www. Anyone have an idea what's going on?

Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

Yusuf9-Jan-11 12:35

Yusuf

9-Jan-11 12:35

Alan Burkhart wrote:
Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

Yusuf
May I help you?

Dalek Dave9-Jan-11 13:43

9-Jan-11 13:43

Short answer? NO.

It looks like a cheap rentacoder didn't check his work.

Alan Burkhart9-Jan-11 14:44

9-Jan-11 14:44

Dalek Dave wrote:
It looks like a cheap rentacoder didn't check his work.

I spoke with a Yahoo techie who swears it's not Yahoo (of course). Since I only have this issue with one person, and only when she attaches a .eml file as an attachment, I'm inclined to agree.

Here's a screen shot, should anyone care to speculate: Click Me[^]

The weird <=p> tags are in the second image. It's certainly not a life-altering problem, but I'm curious as to what's causing it.

Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

Dalek Dave9-Jan-11 14:54

9-Jan-11 14:54

Seeing it in it's natural habitat, as it were, seems to confirm that it is a typo.

Certainly there is no <=P> tag.

Alan Burkhart9-Jan-11 15:04

9-Jan-11 15:04

Dalek Dave wrote:
Seeing it in it's natural habitat, as it were, seems to confirm that it is a typo.

And they repeat all the way down the page with about enough space in between to accomodate the images, had they displayed. I'm in agreement with you. Someone didn't debug his code, and now he's sharing his mistake with the masses.

Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

Dalek Dave9-Jan-11 15:22

Re: Is this a valid HTML tag? [modified]

9-Jan-11 15:22

Alan Burkhart wrote:
he's sharing his mistake with the masses.

We have all done it at one time or another!

User 17164929-Jan-11 22:31

User 1716492

9-Jan-11 22:31

eml files, they are most commonly associated with Microsoft Outlook Express, although other email software should be able to read them. However, change the file type from eml to mht and Microsoft Internet Explorer should be able to display them. When you do that, inspect the source code.

MsoNormal, if you create a web page with Microsoft Word and inspect the source code you will see an awfully lot of these. So if the e-mail message was constructed in HTML format by Microsoft Outlook using the Microsoft Word editing facility (or similar) then when you inspect the source you will see plenty of such like Microsoft styling code.

So is this <=p> tag valid, well, no, but this may be how some e-mail software may render as they may not be fully able to read eml file type as well as not being able to understand the MsoNormal styling.

[added]

If you are coding an HTML e-mail, treat them as if you were coding with ancient technology. http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/6-easy-ways-to-improve-your-html-emails/[^], http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/20-email-design-best-practices-and-resources-for-beginners/[^] and http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/getting-started-with-html-emails/[^] for some NetTuts+ tutorials.

modified on Monday, January 10, 2011 7:19 AM

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

Alan Burkhart10-Jan-11 3:38

10-Jan-11 3:38

Richard A. Abbott wrote:
MsoNormal, if you create a web page with Microsoft Word and inspect the source code you will see an awfully lot of these.

She (the sender) uses WinXP and Outlook Express. She works as an editor for a couple of news websites and practically lives inside MS Word so she may be using the Word email utility. I did see class=msoNormal inside the HTML. I'll ask her. Years ago when I was first getting into the www, I thought it a grand idea to use MS Word to code HTML (WYSIWYG and all that). The HTML was awful. IE could usualy display the page, but Netscape basically had a nervous breakdown. So this could be at the root of it.

It may also be miscommunication between AOL (her) and Yahoo Mail (me), or a glitch within AOL. I spent a half-hour on the phone at Yahoo while a techie dug around in my email and looked at the screen capture[^] I posted online. He couldn't find anything wrong on my end.

Anyway, it's not a huge problem, just one I'd like to understand. Thanks for the info. Smile | :)

Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

User 171649210-Jan-11 4:48

User 1716492

10-Jan-11 4:48

Alan Burkhart wrote:
So this could be at the root of it.

Almost. The header tags are important and some e-mail programs strip out some of those header tags causing certain issues. As MsoNormal is a MS Office functionality, and as e-mail programs do not apparently like to process external CSS then if the e-mail is not rendered with MS Outlook or Outlook Express, then some strange things can happen. Strange things can also happen between different versions of MS Outlook and Outlook Express.

You should suggest to her (the sender) to go get a standalone mass e-mailing package that can process HTML as well as Plain Text, they are not usually that expensive to acquire.

References :

http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mhtml.html[^]

http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-HTMLThreading-0105[^]

modified 1-Aug-19 21:02pm.

Not Active10-Jan-11 2:50

Not Active

10-Jan-11 2:50

Dalek Dave wrote:
a cheap rentacoder didn't check his work.

Hey, I did what the client asked for Poke tongue | ;-P

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

Alan Burkhart10-Jan-11 3:40

10-Jan-11 3:40

So YOU'RE the one!!! Laugh | :laugh:

Everybody SHUT UP until I finish my coffee...

RaviRanjanKr9-Jan-11 18:28

RaviRanjanKr

9-Jan-11 18:28

Alan Burkhart wrote:
Never saw this tag before

I am sure you will never see this tag in future

Alan Burkhart wrote:
I see nothing about it on the www

when it's will something then sure you'll see. Smile | :)

Alan Burkhart wrote:
Anyone have an idea what's going on?

its not tag. as Dalek say it's may be Yahoo typo.

modified on Monday, January 10, 2011 10:11 AM

Alan Burkhart10-Jan-11 3:41