# XML beginners Q's? **URL:** \ **Category:** programming\ **Created:** [July 24, 2003, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-beginners-qs/26568 "2003-07-24T09:41:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Furious5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bb73d2/32.png) [@Furious5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Furious5)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 9:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-beginners-qs/26568/1 "2003-07-24T09:41:21Z")
Ok I’ve read quite a bit about XML on and off for a year or so, but have shyed away from it until now. I am currently working on a personal project which I have decided to use XML. Now I have a few questions about XML specifically: 1 - How do I include the & symbol in my documents 2 - How do I link to external sites as I would in a HTML doc? 3 - I have a field in the XML doc named date, I want to sort the date field by date ASC, but how would I specify this in the XSL? My next query really centres about how everything fits together, at the moment I have a HTML doc, CSS, XML, XSL. Obviously the HTML, CSS will provide the presentation, XSL will provide the HTML formatting but how do I display the XML date in the HTML doc - do I need to use a Server Side Language and if so how? Sorry for all the questions.