Reading and Showing XML Data with JavaScript
As noted previously, Version 6 JavaScript browsers seem to be coming together over the W3C DOM. Several key methods and properties in JavaScript can help in getting information from an XML file. In the section, a very simple XML file is used to demonstrate pulling data from XML into an HTML page using JavaScript to parse (interpret) the XML file. Unfortunately, the examples are limited to using IE5+ on Windows. (The same programs that worked fine using IE5+ on Windows bombed using IE5+ on the Mac using either OS 9+ or OS X.)
However, the great majority of keywords used in the scripts are W3C DOM– compliant, and the only keywords required from the Microsoft-unique set are XMLdocument and document.all() ...
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