Hi all
I'm going to create a product catalog of our products for our resellers. The idea is that the resellers may use this catalog to create a kind of webshop on their side for our products.
I'm not sure how to create this. I was thinking to first of all create an XML file like this:
<PRODUCT>
<NAME>Productname</NAME>
<PRODUCTID>123456</PRODUCTID>
<PERIOD>12</PERIOD>
<PRICING>
<EUR>100</EUR>
<USD>120</USD>
<AUD>177</AUD>
</PRICING>
<PRODUCTINFO>A nice product from Lubox</PRODUCTINFO>
<ADDITIONALINFO>http://mysite.com/moreinfo</ADDITIONALINFO>
<ADDTOCART>http://mysite.com/addtocart?id=123456</ADDTOCART>
</PRODUCT>
I hope you get the idea. I guess this is about right.
My question is: how should I make this available for resellers? We have resellers which can do everything wih such an xml-file, but we also have those that know nothing about anything.
The ones with knowledge, I just give the link to the XML-file and let them create something of their own, but the other ones need something else to set this up. I was thinking about giving them a html-file of sorts which they could just add to their webserver, and everything is ready. And if they want, they can just edit the page a little to get their fonts and colors for example.
So I have read a little about XSLT, and tried some "hello world"-examples. As I understand it, their visitors must then follow a link to the XML-file itself (which in turn links to the xsl-file which does the transformation)? But if the XML-file and XSL-file is on our server, they cannot change anything?
The XML file we create will change maybe daily, or in some cases, more often that that.
So what kind of stuff do I need to read about, to create something which is ready to use and where it's possible to change the "look and feel"?
Any advice and/or links would be great!
Thanks,
Lubox
I'm going to create a product catalog of our products for our resellers. The idea is that the resellers may use this catalog to create a kind of webshop on their side for our products.
I'm not sure how to create this. I was thinking to first of all create an XML file like this:
<PRODUCT>
<NAME>Productname</NAME>
<PRODUCTID>123456</PRODUCTID>
<PERIOD>12</PERIOD>
<PRICING>
<EUR>100</EUR>
<USD>120</USD>
<AUD>177</AUD>
</PRICING>
<PRODUCTINFO>A nice product from Lubox</PRODUCTINFO>
<ADDITIONALINFO>http://mysite.com/moreinfo</ADDITIONALINFO>
<ADDTOCART>http://mysite.com/addtocart?id=123456</ADDTOCART>
</PRODUCT>
I hope you get the idea. I guess this is about right.
My question is: how should I make this available for resellers? We have resellers which can do everything wih such an xml-file, but we also have those that know nothing about anything.
The ones with knowledge, I just give the link to the XML-file and let them create something of their own, but the other ones need something else to set this up. I was thinking about giving them a html-file of sorts which they could just add to their webserver, and everything is ready. And if they want, they can just edit the page a little to get their fonts and colors for example.
So I have read a little about XSLT, and tried some "hello world"-examples. As I understand it, their visitors must then follow a link to the XML-file itself (which in turn links to the xsl-file which does the transformation)? But if the XML-file and XSL-file is on our server, they cannot change anything?
The XML file we create will change maybe daily, or in some cases, more often that that.
So what kind of stuff do I need to read about, to create something which is ready to use and where it's possible to change the "look and feel"?
Any advice and/or links would be great!
Thanks,
Lubox