I need to display the local weather in a PowerPoint slideshow (which updates itself regularely without human interaction). I have in mind to create a local html file that loads the data from the web and displays that in lateron in the ppt.
This is how the XML looks like (I load that from http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Basel&mode=xml&units=metric)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<current>
<city id="2661604" name="Basel">
<coord lon="7.57" lat="47.56"/>
<country>CH</country>
<sun rise="2014-04-30T04:13:21" set="2014-04-30T18:40:25"/>
</city>
<temperature value="12" min="12" max="12" unit="celsius"/>
<humidity value="76" unit="%"/>
<pressure value="1012" unit="hPa"/>
<wind>
<speed value="4.1" name="Gentle Breeze"/>
<direction value="280" code="W" name="West"/>
</wind>
<clouds value="75" name="broken clouds"/>
<precipitation value="1" mode="rain" unit="3h"/>
<weather number="803" value="broken clouds" icon="04d"/>
<lastupdate value="2014-04-30T11:00:00"/>
</current>
How do I now get the values from these tags into my html file?
I need it to be something like this:
<temperature value="">
<sun rise="">
+2 in summertime and +1 in wintertime)There is also a JSON version of the API (http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Basel&mode=json&units=metric) and I would take whichever I get to work the fastest.
Also I would run it on our local windows XP machine (so no php available) but it it would only work with php I could get that to work easily.
Thanks for any help.
You can use javascript/ jQuery. Add <div id="xml-data"></div
> and code bellow on your html page. Hope I help.
<script>
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
jQuery.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=Basel&mode=xml&units=metric",
dataType: "xml",
success: function(xml) {
jQuery(xml).find('current').each(
function()
{
var city_name = jQuery(this).find('city').attr('name'),
country = jQuery(this).find('country').text(),
temperature = jQuery(this).find('temperature').attr('value');
jQuery('<div class="items"></div>').html('<h2>'
+city_name+'</h2><p>'
+country+'</p><p>'
+temperature+'</p>').appendTo('#xml-data');
});
}
});
});
</script>