Yes it is! And I didn't realize that Ralph meant that I could use
that technique in the xml file. That's what I'm doing now. In fact,
found an example on Mike Williams' page that describes the use of an
<infowindow> tag with CDATA to hold the html. This is really what I
wanted to do in the first place but, I was under the impression that I
couldn't. I'm still having a problem getting the sidebar to display.
The map is the same as given above.
My xml is now of the form:
<marker lable"*" icontype"*" lat"*" lng"*">
<infowindow><![CDATA[html stuff for the infowindow]]></infowindow>
</maker>
This is how I'm reading the data:
var request = GXmlHttp.create();
request.open("GET", "../_text/test56.xml", true);
request.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (request.readyState == 4) {
var xmlDoc = GXml.parse(request.responseText);
// obtain the array of markers and loop through it
var markers = xmlDoc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName
("marker");
for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
// obtain the attribues of each marker
var lat = parseFloat(markers[i].getAttribute("lat"));
var lng = parseFloat(markers[i].getAttribute("lng"));
var point = new GLatLng(lat,lng);
var html = GXml.value(markers[i].getElementsByTagName
("infowindow")[0]);
var label = markers[i].getAttribute("label");
var icontype = markers[i].getAttribute("icontype");
// create the marker
var marker = createMarker(point,label,html,icontype);
map.addOverlay(marker);
}
I end up getting a 'documentElement is null or not an object' when I
load the page. I suspect the line that reads the infowindow tags is
the problem but I don't know why.
On Jul 31, 4:38 pm, Garthan <[email protected]> wrote:
> CDATA are life savers.... encoding html and similar any other way is
> just painful.
>
> On Jul 31, 1:03 pm, Ralph Ames <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > It's also possible to put your HTML in a tag
> > <html><![CDATA[......................]]></html>
>
> > Ralph- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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