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How to Load XML File Contents using Javascript?

Answer 1

A:

I think I may have figured it out. The following seems to work pretty well:

function loadFileToElement(filename, elementId)
{
    var xmlHTTP = new XMLHttpRequest();
    try
    {
    xmlHTTP.open("GET", filename, false);
    xmlHTTP.send(null);
    }
    catch (e) {
        window.alert("Unable to load the requested file.");
        return;
    }

    document.getElementById(elementId).innerHTML=xmlHTTP.responseText;
}

craig 2009-05-08 14:44:57

You might want to consider running this asynchronously. Synchronous AJAX requests can lock up the browser's UI giving users in impression that their browser is hung.

Bryan Kyle 2009-05-10 05:31:15

This will be run from the client-side though, not on a server, so we're not too worried about the performance. Picture double-clicking an HTML file on your desktop.

craig 2009-05-11 12:44:00

Answer 2

+1 A:

Maybe you can read the responseText property of XmlHttpRequests to have the plain text before the parsing?

Eineki 2009-05-08 14:47:52

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