How Do I Pull in and Use an XML File?

Hi, I'm working on an XML driven SVG web map for dragonfly species in NH. Basically scientists will save their data in Excel to XML and I pull that data into an SVG map to color code various shapes based on the data.

But I'm not exactly sure how to pull in the basic XML data into my SVG file. I came across some references to XLink but I'm not exactly sure what to do...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

You can make work on client :
* get data with getURL(your_file, callback)
* in callback use data as you want with some script ...

You can also make work on server using PHP, JSP or other
* from data build svg
* send it to client

Michel

thank you! I find it so odd that I would need another language to interpret the XML since SVG is XML.