I'm planning to develop a site. Some of the pages will get data from a Contents supplier. It is in XML format. I have limited Web programming experience. Can I just use Frontpage / Dreamweaver to develop pages which can process XML and display it in the format I want? Or we have to develop server code to take care of XML first and then pass to client pages' code?
I guess you need to XSL-process the XML data on the server side, somehow. Or get some AJAX widget that would work the the XML feeds directly in a web browser.
Also, make sure the site you're getting the XML feed from doesn't have XML sandbagged on their server. Meaning: some sites won't allow their XML files to be read from other URL's.
XML can be parsed using JavaScript (not sure how, but I've seen some people do it), but it's prefered if you were to use server-side code for that instead since most server-side code can access external servers without much problems, while client-side code may not be able to do that (cross-site scripting is considered a security issue hence is disabled for most browsers, and the only way to get around it is to use a proxy which again is server-side code). In your case, you'll most likely need to use server-side code to get the job done since you are going to access it via another site.