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XML/RSS and Basic Stamp

BladerunnerBladerunner Posts: 25
edited 2006-04-15 16:20 in BASIC Stamp
Hi I am new to all of this but want to know if the Basic Stamp can deal with XML or RSS. I want to take information from a remote weather station that sends information as XML. What do I need besides the BS to do this?

Thank you for your help
BR

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  • DiablodeMorteDiablodeMorte Posts: 238
    edited 2006-04-14 02:44
    You need to give us some informaton:

    Where is the stamp?
    Is it next to a computer?
    Is it next to a enternet/wifi?
    What do you want to do with the data?
  • BladerunnerBladerunner Posts: 25
    edited 2006-04-14 02:56
    Hi
    Just the stamp no computer and plan on using the Parallax Internet Netburner Kit or something else to connect to the web.
    I want to take the weather info from the weather site and then display it on a LCD screen. I don't want to use a computer with this project.
    Can the Basic stamp do this.

    Thank you for your help

    BR
  • DiablodeMorteDiablodeMorte Posts: 238
    edited 2006-04-14 02:59
    I think it can.
  • BladerunnerBladerunner Posts: 25
    edited 2006-04-14 14:28
    Thanks for thei info but how do get the BS2 to deal with XML data? and then send the data such at temp, wind speed etc. to a lcd screen

    Thanks for your help

    BR
  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-04-14 15:12
    Are you hoping to parse data from an XML stream?

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  • BladerunnerBladerunner Posts: 25
    edited 2006-04-14 21:25
    Jon
    Yes I want to take the XML data and then have the BS display the info on to a LCD screen. This info could be time, wind speed, temp etc.
    I just don't know where to begin.
    Thanks

    BR
  • Jon WilliamsJon Williams Posts: 6,491
    edited 2006-04-14 21:57
    The BASIC Stamp is a VERY small controller and doesn't have a lot of RAM (26 bytes to be exact) -- it's not really good for string processing.

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2006-04-15 03:14
    Bladerunner said...(trimmed)
    Yes I want to take the XML data and then have the BS display the info on to a LCD screen. This info could be time, wind speed, temp etc.
    I just don't know where to begin.
    I guess if you were really motivated to do this you could, but you would need some sort of external SPI RAM chip large enough to hold the amount of data you expected including HTML code.· You could then scan through it parsing it for what you need and re-direct that to the LCD.· Even then I would recommend a BS2p series Stamp for the ScratchPad RAM and the ability to access EEPROM across banks (so you could store tables of lookup data).

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  • BladerunnerBladerunner Posts: 25
    edited 2006-04-15 16:20
    Thanks everyone

    BR
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