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Why doesn't this XHTML/Javascript page load in FireFox?

Asked by 2bears in JavaScript, Firefox Web Browser, Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Tags: Javascript function, Browser identification, loading functions, XHTML, DOM

Hi Javascript, FireFox Experts
The attached code for a webpage works fine in IE7 but only shows the links (at the bottom) in FireFox.
I suspect there maybe something wrong with the 'browserTest' function, however, I did see an "error msg - 'rt.selectSingleNode' is not a function" (in the "parseXML" function) in the FF error console.
What needs to change so it renders in FF also?

(I can provide the CSS and XML file if required for viewing.)
Kind regards
2bears

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             <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,print" href="./recipe.css" />
 
	<title>Recipe1.html file using Javascript</title>
 
<!-- Locating nodes in Recipe2.xml -->
   <script type = "text/javascript">
   <!--
   	var outputHTML = ""; // stores text to output in outputDiv
	var xmlRecipe=null;
	
	//test for IE or Other Browser
	function browserTest(){
 
	if (window.ActiveXObject){
		// code for IE
		xmlRecipe=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
	}
			else if (document.implementation.createDocument){
				// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
				xmlRecipe=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
	}
					else {
					alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
	}
 
					if (xmlRecipe!=null){ 
					xmlRecipe.async=false;
					xmlRecipe.load("Recipe1.xml");
	}
		parseXML()
	}
 
   // display the XML document 
   function displayDoc(){
   
      document.getElementById( "outputDiv" ).innerHTML = outputHTML;
	} // end function displayDoc
 
   // obtain and apply XML file
   function parseXML(){
   
		var rt = xmlRecipe.documentElement;
		outputHTML = "";
		if(rt.hasChildNodes) {
			outputHTML = "\<h1\>" + rt.selectSingleNode('title').text + "\<\/h1\>"
			outputHTML += "\<p\>" + rt.selectSingleNode('number_of_servings').text + "\<\/p\>"
			outputHTML += "\<p class='emp'\>" + rt.selectSingleNode('comment').text + "\<\/p\>"
			var ind = rt.selectSingleNode('ingredients')
			if(ind.hasChildNodes) {
				outputHTML += "\<ul\>" 
				outputHTML += "\<li class='heading'\>" +ind.attributes.getNamedItem('heading').nodeValue + "\<\/li\>"
				for(var c = 0;c < ind.childNodes.length;c++) {
					outputHTML += "\<li\>" 
					if(ind.childNodes[c].attributes.getNamedItem('quantity')){
						outputHTML += ind.childNodes[c].attributes.getNamedItem('quantity').nodeValue+ '&nbsp;';
	}
					if(ind.childNodes[c].attributes.getNamedItem('measure')){
						outputHTML += ind.childNodes[c].attributes.getNamedItem('measure').nodeValue + '&nbsp;';
	}
					outputHTML += ind.childNodes[c].text + "\<\/li\>"
	}
					outputHTML += "\<\/ul\>"
	}
			var prep = rt.selectNodes('preparation_instructions')
			if(prep.length>0) {
				for(var p = 0;p < prep.length;p++) {
					outputHTML += "\<p\>" + prep[p].text + "\<\/p\>"
	}
	}
			outputHTML += "\<p\>" + rt.selectSingleNode('cooking_instructions').text + "\<\/p\>"
	}
		displayDoc();
	}
 
-->
   </script>
 
</head>
 
	<body onload="browserTest();">
 
		<div id="outputDiv"></div>
   
		<div class="nav">
			<br />
		<a href="Recipe2.html">Recipe 2, HTML version</a>
			<br /> 
		<a href="Recipe1.xml">Recipe 1, XML version</a>
			<br />
		<a href="Recipe2.xml">Recipe 2, XML version</a> 
 
		</div>
    
	</body>
</html>
           
         

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Why doesn't this XHTML/Javascript page load in FireFox?

Asked by 2bears in JavaScript, Firefox Web Browser, Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Tags: Javascript function, Browser identification, loading functions, XHTML, DOM

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