Cross-browser XML parsing???

gohankid77 · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 28th, 2005, 03:20

Hi everybody. I was just reading at XML parsing using JavaScript/DOM when I noticed that everything I saw created an ActiveX object to parse it. This of course means that it isn't compatible with Firefox, Netscape, etc.

I was wondering if there is a cross-browser method to do this using JavaScript because server-side scripting is not available yet.

Thanks!

Edit: Sorry if this is in the wrong forum. It relates to both XML and JavaScript, but I figured XML DOM would be the best choice.

Webforumz Staff · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 28th, 2005, 08:47

It's not always possible to post in the correct forum, so don't worry about it too much!

In most situations, XML should be parsed on the server side. I can't think of a good reason for it not to be, other than you simply don't have that feature available.

As for why most of the ones you saw used an ActiveX object - I can only assume that was done for speed.

However, there is this site which appears to offer exactly what you want - and it's cross browser.

But what if the user disables Javascript in their browser? What will you do then?

gohankid77 · #3 (**permalink**) Mar 28th, 2005, 16:06

Thanks, Karl. I was hoping for something I could actually code myself, though. I found something to load the XML file, but now I need to figure out how to pull information from the file.

By the way, here is the JS solution I found for loading an XML file:

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<script language="javascript">

var xmlDoc;

function Netscape()
{
 var meeting,text;
 meeting = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('meeting_title');
 text = meeting[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
 alert(text);
 
}

function readXmlDocument()
{
 
if(window.ActiveXObject)
{
 //xmlWinDoc = document.getElementById('meetingsxml').XMLDocument;
 xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
 xmlDoc.load('meetings.xml');
 
 }
if(document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
 {
  xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
  xmlDoc.onload = Netscape;
  xmlDoc.load('meetings.xml');
 }
 
}
</script>

It worked for me, but now I need to insert the information into an X/HTML page. I'm hoping it doesn't require JS or XSLT, but some things just can't be avoided. :P

Webforumz Staff · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 28th, 2005, 17:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by gohankid77

Thanks, Rob.

I'm not Rob :P

gohankid77 · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 28th, 2005, 17:39

*fixed* Sorry about that... :P

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