(1)    Use Active Server Pages to write a server side program that gets XML information from a web site on the fly and display it.  Your should create a page, weather.html, with the following form:

http://yourserver/weather.html

The form allows the user to select from four weather stations and submit the form using the Post method to weather.asp.  If Ellington station is selected, the result:

http://yourserver/weather.asp

The weather information is stored in the OMF format, which uses XML.  The XML weather information can be obtained from the following source:  http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/cgi-bin/oleg/get-obs.

Tips:

• Study OMG carefully.
• The XML contents return by the link above is not entirely XML-compliant.  You may turn off the validation by the statement objXML.validateOnParse = False where objXML is the XML parser object.
• The load method that loads an XML file or URL of the MS/XML is problematic sometimes.  You may want to use the loadXML method which load XML contents from a string.
• To convert from Epoch time, you may want to use the CDate and DateAdd functions in VBScript.
• To grab a web page, you may use AspTear , which has been installed in lattes.