How FreshNews.biz was designed and created using Java, XML and XSLT
by Barry Nirmal
There is a Java program that fetches XML files from RSS feeds of various news web sites
e.g. BBC, Reuters, etc. Then Barry wrote a XSLT program that reads the XML file
and, using XPATH, applies a transformation to it and writes out HTML code in a file.
The reason why
we create HTML file is so that this file can be correctly opened by all kinds
of browsers - even old browsers like Internet Explorer Version 4.
(Note that XML files can only be opened by newer browsers.)
The HTML files are then uploaded to the server using a Java program
written by Barry Nirmal.