topic Re: XML DOM Javascript in Alfresco Archive

XML DOM Javascript

koolalfdev — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:36:57 GMT

Hi All,I am trying to access a avm node which is a xml document and I want to get the contents of the xml in JavaScript like I can do with document.xmlNodeModel in .ftl files. I was wondering if I can do it in javascript as well. I looked at contents in the avm node it did not show the xmlNodeModel

Re: XML DOM Javascript

sbuckle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:30:36 GMT

If you can grab the content of the node then yes, you can process it as XML in JavaScript; Rhino 1.6 and later has built-in support for E4X. For example, you can do something like this in your JavaScript:


var xml = new XML('<your XML string>');
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Here's a link to a basic tutorial if you are not familiar with E4X: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guiderocessing_XML_with_E4X

Re: XML DOM Javascript

koolalfdev — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:44:43 GMT

Thanks for the response but in the xml to get xml in javascript
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> this line posses an error.

Right now I am manipulating the string with javascript code.

how to get rid of this line.

Thanks.

Re: XML DOM Javascript

sbuckle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:17:37 GMT

The simplest way is to use substring:


var xmlstr = '<your xml string>';
var header = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>';
xmlstr = xmlstr.substring(header.length);
var xml = new XML(xmlstr);
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Re: XML DOM Javascript

koolalfdev — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:20:58 GMT

Thanks