Loading an XML File - A Cross browser Example

ben2ong2 · October 05, 2006, 05:20:29 PM

The following example is a cross browser example that loads an existing XML document ("note.xml") into the XML parser:
<html><head><script type="text/javascript">var xmlDocfunction loadXML(){//load xml file// code for IEif (window.ActiveXObject) { xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); xmlDoc.async=false; xmlDoc.load("note.xml"); getmessage() }// code for Mozilla, etc.else if (document.implementation &&document.implementation.createDocument) { xmlDoc= document.implementation.createDocument("","",null); xmlDoc.load("note.xml"); xmlDoc.onload=getmessage }else { alert('Your browser cannot handle this script'); }}function getmessage(){document.getElementById("to").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("to")[0].firstChild.nodeValuedocument.getElementById("from").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("from")[0].firstChild.nodeValuedocument.getElementById("message").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].firstChild.nodeValue}</script></head><body onload="loadXML()" bgcolor="yellow"><h1>W3Schools Internal Note</h1><p>To: <span id="to"></span>
From: <span id="from"></span>

Message: <span id="message"></span></p></body></html>
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There are more examples of this in our XML DOM tutorial.

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Loading an XML File - A Cross browser Example

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