jQuery XML export or Simple JavaScript file download

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jQuery XML export or Simple JavaScript file download

Hi,

I have dynamically created a xml string form a JSON object returned from server. I need to give the user to download this as a file so that when the user click the button named export he/she receives a downloadable.xml file and can be save d on local machine.

Is this possible?

-- Mithun Sreedharan

+1 A:

Have you generated the file on the server or on the client?

If you have generated the file at the server you can use the content-disposition header. You also need to set the content type to application/xml or text/xml.

If you have generated the file using jQuery, then it isn't possible for the user to save it locally. Javascript isn't allowed access to the file system.

kgiannakakis 2009-11-02 08:02:26

Yes, i have generated the xml string on the client using jQuery, and i want when the user clicks a button, he will be prompted to save the xml as a file and user chooses the location.

Mithun P 2009-11-02 09:12:52

As I've said this is not possible with javascript. You need to consider an alternative solution. Like when user clicks a button the xml is Ajax posted to a server location, the server gets the xml and returns it as an attachment.

kgiannakakis 2009-11-02 09:36:42

+2 A:

I was recently looking for something similar, and came across Downloadify. It appears to use a feature of Flash 10 to work around the filesystem limitation of JavaScript.

Chris Ostler 2010-08-10 22:30:59

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