Parsing XML in Javascript

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posted 23 years ago

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I do have a Javascript variable which holds an XML string.
var replyXML = <Name>
<First>Maya</First>
<Last>Menon</Last>
</Name>
I want to extract the values of First and Last and Save it into two Javascript variables.
How to do that ?
I have heard that using DHTML this can be done .. Any help

Can we use parser in Javascript ? If so which is the best parser to use ?
Thanks,
Maya

[This message has been edited by maya menon (edited August 21, 2001).]

David Weitzman

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http://home.worldcom.ch/~jmlugrin/fesi/xparse.txt

Sham Jowsaki

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Hi
Transforming XML to HTML on the client
Here is the simple source code needed to transform the XML file to HTML on the client (try it yourself):
<html>
<body>
<script language="javascript">
// Load XML
var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xml.async = false
xml.load("cd_catalog.xml")
// Load the XSL
var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
xsl.async = false
xsl.load("cd_catalog.xsl")
// Transform
document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl))
</script>
</body>
</html>

The first block of code creates an instance of the Microsoft XML parser (XMLDOM), and loads the XML document into memory. The second block of code creates another instance of the parser and loads the XSL document into memory. The last line of code transforms the XML document using the XSL document, and writes the result to the HTML document.
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Tom George

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posted 20 years ago

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Seems the code you've posted will work only with IE. I'm looking for javascript syntax that can parse xml, across browsers. Is that a mirage??
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Amazing what you can find with a Google search - for example
this cross browser javascript parser project on sourceforge.
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