[thelist] updating cascading 'select' form elements fromadatabase

Joel D Canfield joel at spinhead.com
Thu Aug 12 09:04:21 CDT 2004


> > > What about using javascript and XML. Let's you make a trip to the
> > > server (for the XML file) without refreshing the HTML on 
> the client 
> > > side. Works in many modern browsers but not all, though.
> > 
> > Intruiging. Can you expand on that? What's *in* the XML 
> file? How does 
> > it get there?
> 
> Sorry for stepping on the middle of a conversation, but i 
> guess he's referring to the xml http request object
> 
http://jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html

Possibly, but that doesn't help. I still don't see the big picture.

joel


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