xml with database (help me understand please!)

[princess]

Hello

i am a university student and i am currenlty on my placement year. i have been told to learn XML AND XSL to do the follwoing.........

"The ultimate purpose behind this is that we can give marketing a simple utility that will allow them to enter the event and news details and will construct the xml file when they are finished.
All we have to do in the future then is to load the new xml file onto the web site"

i am assuming a need a database and also a page with text fields in which will be connect to the specific field in the database etc

bearing in mind i am a design student (website, animation, graphics etc) i dont know much about code apart from html

could anyone help me?

regards *Princess

[Nigel McFarlane]

The XSL part (which mostly means learning XSLT and XPath) is for the display of data once it's been captured in the database. For data-entry, just use an ordinary HTML form submission process. a program collects that data and turns it into XML format.

The XSL code (usually run on the server) turns the XML data back into HTML for display. This is the only bit that has a visual design aspect. The rest just has data design.