Can't you test for the existence of any marker elements and proceed
accordingly...?

var xml = GXml.parse(data);
if(xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('marker')){
 var markers = xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('marker');
 // proceed accordingly...
}

Martin.


On 31 Mar, 18:29, Jerry Garciuh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the reply.
>
> When supplied that XML IE throws the JavaScript error
>
> Error: 'documentElement' is null or not an object
>
> referencing these lines
>
>        var xml = GXml.parse(data);
>        var markers =
> xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName('marker');
>
> I would like to know what I can do to eliminate this JavaScript error.
>
> JG
>
> On Mar 31, 12:18 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 31, 6:03 pm, Jerry Garciuh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > When my XML is returned with no locations found what should  I have in
> > > <markers></markers>?
>
> > > Validator @ W3 objects to the XML below with 'end tag for "markers"
> > > which is not finished'.  I changed all of my "#REQUIRED" to "#IMPLIED"
> > > but this was appreantly not the issue.
>
> > > <?xml version="1.0"  encoding="utf-8" ?>
> > > <!DOCTYPE markers [
> > > <!ELEMENT markers (marker+)>
> > > <!ELEMENT marker (#PCDATA)>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker lat CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker lng CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker name CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker address CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker distance CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > <!ATTLIST marker phone CDATA #IMPLIED>
> > > ]>
> > > <markers>
> > > </markers>
>
> > > Any advice appreciated.
>
> > I don't see what this has to do with the Javascript API for Google
> > Maps.
> > All the answers are 
> > athttp://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/dtd/alfs_dtd/xml_dtd-syntax...

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