Loading UCS-2(UTF-16) XML file

[sm0a9f4]

Hi everyone,
I'm a noob with a problem...
In non-IE browsers, I'm trying to load a UCS-2 (UTF-16) encoded file using the following lines:
xmlDoc=document .implementation .createDocument ("settings.xml" ,"",null);
xmlDoc.async=fa lse;
xmlDoc.load("") ;
I get an error on the last line that says "Value Undefined (result expression xmlDoc.load) is not an object."
1.) Do I have to specify an encoding type when loading a an XML file? (There already is an encoding line on the first line of my XML file which says <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ucs-2"?>
2.) The XML has no text elements (i.e. all the values are stored as attributes for each element). Should I use another method for loading this file?

[rnd me]

1.) Do I have to specify an encoding type when loading a an XML file? (There already is an encoding line on the first line of my XML file which says <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ucs-2"?>
2.) The XML has no text elements (i.e. all the values are stored as attributes for each element). Should I use another method for loading this file?

1. no, it will be detected automatically. if the BOM is incorrect however, you will run into problems.

2. i would use another method yes, but not because of the structure of the XML data, that shouldn't matter.

[sm0a9f4]

Thank you for answering my 2 questions, but can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Why do I get that error when trying to load the file?

[rnd me]

your syntax is incorrect. you pass filename upon calling the load function.


here is an example from w3schools

xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.load("books.xml");