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05.13.2008 at 08:05AM PDT, ID: 23398070
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removing html tags when parsing xml using javascript

Asked by liz1976 in Java Programming Language, JavaScript

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hi,

i have an xml file where a sample node might look like:

<definition>this is the text and it might have a &lt;a href="#link">link&lt;/a> in it and it might have some line breaks&lt;br />&lt;br /></definition>

i'm using the javascript snippet below to parse the xml and it works fine apart from one thing. i would like to get rid of all the html tags within the 'definition' nodes and be left with just the text. i.e. as if the xml file had just contained:

<definition>this is the text and it might have a link in it and it might have some line breaks</definition>

 i was wondering if anyone knows a simple way to do this?

would be grateful for any suggestions.

liz
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<script type="text/javascript">
 
//call the included parseXML function above
parseXML("/inc/pla/glossary.xml");
 
//find out how many <term> tags in the glossary.xml file
noOfTerms = xmlhttp.getElementsByTagName("glossary")[0].getElementsByTagName("term").length;
 
//loop through them to find one with a name that matches the nameOfTerm
for (var i=0; i<noOfTerms; i++) { //for all the terms in the glossary
	name = xmlhttp.getElementsByTagName("glossary")[0].getElementsByTagName("term")[i].getElementsByTagName("name")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
	definition = xmlhttp.getElementsByTagName("glossary")[0].getElementsByTagName("term")[i].getElementsByTagName("definition")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
 
	if (name == '<%=nameOfTerm%>') { //if the name of the term passed into the glossary function matches a name in the glossary xml file
	document.write ("<a href='#' class='tooltip'><%=nameOfTerm%><span>" + definition + "</span></a>");
	}
}
</script>
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