Read entire xml file

[Sunny]

Hi,
Can someone tell me how to get the content of entire xml file in
Firefox?
I am using this code to load the xml file.
if (document.imple mentation && document.implem entation.create Document)
{
xmlDoc = document.implem entation.create Document("","", null);
xmlDoc.async="f alse";
var isLoaded = xmlDoc.load("al lcounties_3.xml ");
if (isLoaded == true) {
//alert(xmlDoc.do cumentElement.x ml);
}
}

I tried xmlDoc.document Element.xml but it dont work.
How can I read the entire xml file in a variable?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Read entire xml file

Sunny wrote:

I am using this code to load the xml file.
if (document.imple mentation && document.implem entation.create Document)
{
xmlDoc = document.implem entation.create Document("","", null);
xmlDoc.async="f alse";

You should assign a boolean value not a string to the async property:
xmlDoc.async = false;
However that blocks the browser while loading the document so that is
usually not a good idea. Consider to use asynchronous loading (async =
true) in a browser environment.

var isLoaded = xmlDoc.load("al lcounties_3.xml ");
if (isLoaded == true) {
//alert(xmlDoc.do cumentElement.x ml);
}
}
>
I tried xmlDoc.document Element.xml but it dont work.
How can I read the entire xml file in a variable?

Well xmlDoc is a variable containing the XML document as a DOM tree.
If you only want a string then I am not sure why you use
createDocument( ) and the load method, you could use XMLHttpRequest and
simply access responseText.
Or, if you think you need createDocument( ) and the load method, then you
need to serialize the DOM tree e.g.
var xml = new XMLSerializer() .serializeToStr ing(xmlDoc);

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Martin Honnen

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