Getting started with XML/SWF Charts

February 11th, 2009

Requirement

  • web browser with Flash Player 9 or later
  • XML/SWF Charts

Installation

  1. Download XML/SWF Charts, extract the download package, and put somewhere on your web server. I put mine into folder charts.
  2. Open your browser, and go to http://localhost/charts/sample.html

That’s it. You’ll see a charts in your browser.

If you want to feed data to the chart  or you want to visualize your data with with XML/SWF Charts. Open sample.xml and write your XML. Just say you want to put this data into XML/SWF Charts.

2001 2002 2003
Company A 100000 200000 150000
Company B 98000 100000 160000
Company C 200000 210000 180000

So here your sample.xml should look like :

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<chart>
    <chart_data>
        <row>
	        <null/>
	        <string>2001</string>
	        <string>2002</string>
	        <string>2003</string>
        </row>
 
        <row>
	        <string>A</string>
	        <number>100000</number>
	        <number>200000</number>
	        <number>150000</number>
        </row>
        <row>
 
	        <string>B</string>
	        <number>98000</number>
	        <number>100000</number>
	        <number>160000</number>
        </row>
        <row>
	        <string>C</string>
	        <number>200000</number>
	        <number>210000</number>
	        <number>180000</number>
        </row>
    </chart_data>
</chart>

That’s it. You can fire up your browser again, and see the result at http://localhost/charts/

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