[thelist] AJAX: Getting External Content by DIV?

[Jon Hughes]

Thanks for the help!  Funny, the only book I have ever bought is
Bulletproof Ajax, which is sitting, open, right next to my keyboard :)
I just haven't read all the way through it yet.

Thanks again!
 - Jon

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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Ben Glassman
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Subject: Re: [thelist] AJAX: Getting External Content by DIV?

Jon,

When you fetch a document that is valid XML (in this case an XHTML file)
using Ajax you can access its XML tree via responsexml. You can then
traverse its DOM using the Javascript DOM methods (getElementsByTagName,
getElementById, etc.). From there you can generate whatever HTML you
need
via createElement, createTextNode, etc. and append it to your document.

The book Bulletproof Ajax[1] by Jeremy Keith is a great introduction to
Ajax
and includes coverage of how to do something like this. He has an
example
where he is pulling contact information from an xml file, using it to
create
html and inserting that into his document similarly to what you want to
do.

[1] http://bulletproofajax.com/
[2] http://bulletproofajax.com/code/chapter04/xml/people/index.html
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