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Data in Grid (Table) from XML file
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<html>
<head>
<title>ActiveWidgets Grid :: Examples</title>
<style> body, html {margin:0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;} </style>
<!-- ActiveWidgets stylesheet and scripts -->
<link href="gridRuntime/styles/classic/grid.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" ></link>
<script src="gridRuntime/lib/grid.js"></script>
<!-- grid format -->
<style>
.active-controls-grid {height: 100%; font: menu;}
.active-column-0 {width: 80px;}
.active-column-1 {width: 200px; background-color: threedlightshadow;}
.active-column-2 {text-align: right;}
.active-column-3 {text-align: right;}
.active-column-4 {text-align: right;}
.active-column-5 {text-align: right;}
.active-grid-column {border-right: 1px solid threedshadow;}
.active-grid-row {border-bottom: 1px solid threedlightshadow;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<script>
// create data formats
var string = new Active.Formats.String;
var number1 = new Active.Formats.Number;
var number2 = new Active.Formats.Number;
var date = new Active.Formats.Date;
// define formatting rule for text output
number1.setTextFormat("#,###.##");
number2.setTextFormat("");
date.setTextFormat("dd mmm yy");
date.setDataFormat("ISO8061");
// create ActiveWidgets data model - XML-based table
var table = new Active.XML.Table;
// provide data URL
table.setURL("gridExamples/data/companies-array.xml");
// define namespace for selecting column data
table.setNamespace("co", "http://tempuri.org/");
// set column XPath
table.setColumns(["co:ticker", "co:name", "co:marketcap", "co:sales", "co:employees", "co:timestamp"]);
// set column formatting
table.setFormats([string, string, number1, number1, number2, date]);
// start asyncronous data retrieval
table.request();
// define column labels
var columns = ["Ticker", "Company Name", "Market Cap.", "$ Sales", "Employees", "Date"];
// create ActiveWidgets Grid javascript object
var obj = new Active.Controls.Grid;
// provide column labels
obj.setColumnProperty("texts", columns);
// provide external model as a grid data source
obj.setDataModel(table);
// write grid html to the page
document.write(obj);
</script>
</body>
</html>
ActiveWidgets.zip( 344 k)
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