[thelist] Firefox 1.5 and XML

[Matt Warden]

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Tom Schmidt wrote:
> Help was on its way fast!  Thank you for your assistance.
> 
> I had assumed I had a valid XML file, as when I open it with either browser
> it gets displayed with no errors.
> I added these alerts and got the following:
> xmlDoc.nodeType = 9
> xmlDoc.tagName = undefined
> xmlDoc.innerHTML = undefined
> xmlDoc.documentElement = null
> 
> I also tried to see what would happen if I used
> nodes = xmlDoc.childNodes
> While this did not produce any errors, accessing its length with
> (nodes.length) gave me zero, not quite what I had hoped for.

Maybe not what you had hoped for, but I believe exactly what it should
produce. I don't think your XML document has loaded when you are testing it.

try this:

xmlDoc= document.implementation.createDocument("","",null)
// or .addEventListener("load", handlXMLload, false);
xmlDoc.onload = handleXMLload;
xmlDoc.load(xmlFile)

function handleXMLload() {
	alert(xmlDoc.childNodes.length);
}

hth,

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Matt Warden
Miami University
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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