xml help!!!

[jmahdi]

• Software which collects schedule information from any source on the web and to save this in a common format by using XML.

can some one please give me some tips on what the heck might be a "common format!!" and where is the best place to learn about this "Collection and saving thing" on the web...please help as I need this for my course work...

thanks....

J.

 

[root]

what sort of schedule? TV radio, school time table?

a common format would be (and this isn't sarcasm) a format that could be common to all tasks.

a example of this would be this. -this is just off the top of my head and could be wrong

<xml>
<element id="1" start_type="static" start="7.30" duration="30">Sport</element>
<element id="2"start_type="dynamic" start="1" duration="30">Soap</element>
</xml>

You see task one is static, it definitly starts at one time, whilst task twos start time is dynamic, it hapens after thask one is finished, this allows the sport to run into extra time (see what I mean)...

that example might be a bit complex for a simple data mining excercise...

 

[jmahdi]

thanx root , appreciated tip... u see I know the "Coomon format" means something like this but as an illiterate in xml it doesn't ring any bell for me..

thanx again

j.