Using XML data to link a new server

[bvalvo]

Please excuse me if this is not the correct forum for this question.

"How do I code HTML to use XML data in a web link?"

I want to use XML data to easily change server names for links on 15+ web sites with 100+ pages. Normally, a link would look like this:

"<a href='http://server1.someplace.com/..."

I want to place XML data in place of the server name. I've built an XML file with an element called "servername" and set it to "server1.someplace.com".

How do I get this to work? All help is greatly appreciated.

BTW: I'm using Dreamweaver CS3.

Bill

[ShawnCplus]

You can't code anything in HTML but if you are using a server-side language like PHP, ASP, etc. they all have functionality to parse XML files though I've only dealt with PHP XML parsing

[peter_budo]

You can use JavaScript like in this example, but I personaly consider to be too complicated for beginners. Simple way around can be to transfer your html documents to xsl documents. Then your dynamic linking can be simple like this

<p class="link" style="cursor: pointer;"> 
        <xsl:attribute name="onClick">show('<xsl:value-of select="servername"/>');
        </xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:value-of select='servername'/>
</p>