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Javascript to create XML files

Can anyone please tell me how to go about creating XML files using Javascript?
Is this possible?

You can do something like this:

<script language="JavaScript">

xmlObj = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlObj.async = false;
xslObj = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xslObj.async = false;
xslObj.load("somexslfile.xsl");

function makeXML() {
var str = "";
str = "<?xml version='1.0'?><mainnode>";
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
str += "<item>" + i + "</item>";
}
str+= "</mainnode>";
xmlObj.loadXML(str);
somediv.innerHTML = xmlObj.transformNode(xslObj);
}

</script>

<body>
<div id="somediv"></div>

</body>

You can generate any type of xml document you want using a variable and using the loadXML method you can transform it using a xsl stylesheet.

you can also do xmlObj.load("somepage.asp") or xmlObj.load("somefile.xml") as well.

Hope that helps,

Patterson

iamjhkang

<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript"/>
function makeDOM(){
//DOM object
var domDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml.DOMDocument");

//PI
var pi = domDoc.createProcessingInstruction("xml","version='1.0'");
domDoc.insertBefore(pi, domDoc.childNodes.item(0));

var root = domDoc.createNode(1,'ROOTElement','');//first para : NodeType(1 means NodeElement), second para: name of node, third para : namespace

domDoc.appendChild(root);

var firstChild = domDoc.createNode(1,'FirstChild','');
root.appendChild(firstChild);
firstChild.text = "PCDATA of The FirstChild Element";

var secondChild = domDoc.createNode(1,'SecondChild','');
root.appendChild(secondChild);

//attributes of the secondChild element
secondChild.setAttribute('revision','1.0');
alert(domDoc.xml);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<span onclick="makeDOM()">click</span>
</body>
</html>

If you want to make or handle XML documents, you can think of them as a DOMDocument.
DOM works in the following way.
Make imaginary DOMDocument, in this case domDoc.
Make root element and append this to the imaginary DOMDocument, in this case root = 'blabla' & domDoc.appendChild(root).
make immediate children of the root. in this case firstChild = 'blabla' & root.appendChild(firstChild).
goes on and on.
Attributes works some differently.
Don't use appendChild method, instead just use the method of setAttribute(string para1,string para2).

For more node types visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/htm/xmmthcreatenode.asp.

HTH.

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