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XML Javascript doesn't work in Safari - Please help.

New to XML in XHTML. Use it in ActionScript successfully all the time - but this is driving me nuts.

This code (below) works everywhere but Safari... Go ahead and cut and paste it and you'll see.

I can't find a solution in English. Been programming for 20 years, but I don't speak Computer Science - so looking for how this code needs to be updated to include the Safari DOM. I've read that the solution is a form of HTTPrequest somethine - but can't find any actual solution. Just a few notes of people bragging that they 'figured it out' - but had to rearrange their code to do it.

What is missing?

<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
	var xmlDoc=null;
	if (window.ActiveXObject){// code for IE
		xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
	}else if (document.implementation.createDocument){// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
		xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
	}else{
		alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
	}
	
	if (xmlDoc!=null){
		xmlDoc.async=false;
		xmlDoc.load("http://www.echo-x.com/portfolio.xml");
 
		var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("ART");
		for (i=0;i<x.length;i++){
			document.write("<img border='0' src='http://www.echo-x.com/images/navbuttons/grid_"+x[i].getElementsByTagName("IMAGE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + ".gif'>");
		}
	}
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Pawel Witkowski

Just use this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa/

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LazarusBlack

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I tried both offered solutions and the Sarissa files didn't work:

http://www.echo-x.com/xmltest1.html

However, jwmcpeak's solution appears to work perfectly. THANKS!!!!!

I'm going to go back to Sarissa and try to figure out why that didn't work - but if you have a suggestion, please refer to the code below.

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.echo-x.com/scripts/sarissa/sarissa.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
	var xmlDoc = Sarissa.getDomDocument("http://www.echo-x.com/portfolio.xml","foo", null);  
	
	if (xmlDoc!=null){
		xmlDoc.async=false;
		xmlDoc.load("http://www.echo-x.com/portfolio.xml");
 
		var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("ART");
		for (i=0;i<x.length;i++){
			document.write("<img border='0' src='http://www.echo-x.com/images/navbuttons/grid_"+x[i].getElementsByTagName("IMAGE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + ".gif'>");
		}
	}
</script>
</body>
</html>

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jwmcpeak

I don't know what your XML schema looks like, but I assume you're not using a namespace. So try calling the getDomDocument() factory method without passing any parameters:

var xmlDoc = Sarissa.getDomDocument();
 
if (xmlDoc != null) {
    xmlDoc.async=false;
    xmlDoc.load("http://www.echo-x.com/portfolio.xml");
 
    var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("ART");
    for (i=0;i<x.length;i++){
        document.write("<img border='0' src='http://www.echo-x.com/images/navbuttons/grid_"+x[i].getElementsByTagName("IMAGE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + ".gif'>");
    }
}

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