About the XML Web Part

You might use the XML Web Part to display:

• Structured data from database tables or queries.
• XML-based documents.
• XML forms that combine structured and unstructured data, such as weekly status reports or travel expense reports.

There are two ways you can add content to the XML Web Part:

XML and XSL Editors     Using these editors, you can enter or modify XML and XSLT source code. The XML and XSL source editors are plain text editors intended for users who have knowledge of XML and XSLT syntax.

XML and XSL Links     Instead of editing the XML and XSLT, you can enter a hyperlink to a text file containing XML and XSLT source code. The two valid hyperlink protocols you can use are:

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http://)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol with privacy, which uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption (https://)

You can use an absolute URL or a relative URL. However, you cannot use a file path.

You can combine edited and linked XML content to provide both primary and secondary information. For example, you could provide an error message as secondary information in the edited XML content, in case the linked XML content, or primary information, is not available. When you provide both edited and linked XML content, the linked XML content is always used first. If the linked XML content is not accessible, the edited XML content is used.

Note  Combining edited and linked XSL content in this manner is not supported.