Hi all first post here hoping someone can help. This is my first shot at xml so please go easy on me if this is pretty obvious. I've been looking at xml for a few days now. Done all the usual things got myself a book and followed some instructions on the net. I can succesfully pull a xml page into my html document and display its contents I,m wondering if it is possible to have a reference to an image in an xml document, maybe the url of the image or something. I'm really not sure where to start with this. Any help would be much appreciated. I have found various topics on this on the net but most seem to be tested in mozilla only or seem a little more complicated than i need.

it's never going to be easy when you first start with XML.

An image could be referenced in exactly the same way everything else is and it just become another node in the document.

Are you using XSL & XSLT (Transforms) to display the XML in the browser?

Depending on what your XML file looks like, you'll probably want to do an XSL transform as you bring the XML file into your web page, as chrishirst said. Fortunately, XSLT shouldn't take you more than 3-4 hours to get the basics down. If you're processing XML documents you've probably run into XPath and that's how you'll retrieve items to manipulate in you XSLT document.

For example, given the following XML file:

<!-- Standard XML header and parent nodes... -->
<Image>
  <URI>http://example.com/image.png</URI>
</Image>
<!-- Finish the item -->

You'll use an XPath expression like:

\\Item\Image\URL

and then your XSLT might look like this for when you want to display the image:

<img src="{.\Image\URI} />

Something along those lines. Check out these XSLT tutorials.