you need to get the text node that is a child of data_id then get its value
you prob need to try something like:
dataId[0].firstChild.nodeValue
p00kie wrote:
> Anyways. I'm not sure what the problem is.
>
> 501 function initialize() {
> 502 if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
> 503 GDownloadUrl("../output/search/
> results.xml", function(data) {
> 504 var xml = GXml.parse(data);
> 505 var dataId =
> xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("data_id");
> 506 alert(dataId[0].getAttribute());
>
> I believe that line 506 should work and print out the data that I
> want. I know there's nothing wrong with line 503 and 504. Either
> something is wrong in 505 or 506.
>
> getting the attribute of dataId[0] should not be printing out null...
>
>
>
> On Nov 14, 8:44 am, p00kie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi VizGuy,
>>
>> Actually what I am doing totally has to do with the Google
>> Visualization API.
>>
>> 1. I am using GXml in place of XMLHttpRequest as per Google's sample
>> code:http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html
>> 2. Don't look at it as something for the Google Maps API (although
>> essentially the maps portion is a gadget of the google visualization
>> api).
>> 3. This is a read in of an xml file (a.k.a. reading in a file source).
>>
>> I'm sure many others are doing the same sort of thing if not similar.
>> I would like to figure out this method without PHP.
>>
>> On Nov 13, 6:25 pm, VizGuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am not sure what you are trying to do, but I am quite sure this is not the
>>> right group to post this question to, as it has nothing to do with the
>>> Google Visualization API. Does it...?
>>>
>>> VizGuy
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:20 PM, p00kie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Attempting to parse this info:
>>>>
>>>> if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
>>>> 503 GDownloadUrl("../output/search/
>>>> results.xml", function(data) {
>>>> 504 var xml = GXml.parse(data);
>>>> 505 var dataId =
>>>> xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("data_id");
>>>> 506 alert(dataId[0].getAttribute());
>>>>
>>>> Trying to get the first element of this - on:
>>>>
>>>> 1. alert(dataId[0].getAttribute()) - i get alert that says "null"
>>>> 2. alert(dataId[0]) - i get "[object element]"
>>>> 3. alert(dataId) - i get "[object nodelist]
>>>>
>>>> how do i get the actual value?
>>>>
>>>> once again:
>>>>
>>>> this is my xml:
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><database>
>>>> <select>
>>>> <row>
>>>> <data_id>5310482</data_id>
>>>> </row
>>>> </select>
>>>> </database>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 13, 12:42 pm, p00kie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi:
>>>>>
>>>>> GDownloadUrl("../output/search/results.xml", function
>>>>> (data) {
>>>>> 503 var xml = GXml.parse(data);
>>>>> 504 var dataId =
>>>>> xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("data_id");
>>>>> 505 for (var i = 0; i < dataId.length; i++) {
>>>>> 506 var di = dataId[i];
>>>>> 507 document.write(di);
>>>>> 508 // alert(di);
>>>>> 509 }
>>>>> 510 // alert(dataId);
>>>>> 511 // print(dataId);
>>>>> 512 }
>>>>>
>>>>> trying to parse this xml document and print out to html / alert /
>>>>> whatever - no success
>>>>>
>>>>> this is the format of the xml:
>>>>>
>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><database>
>>>>> <select>
>>>>> <row>
>>>>> <data_id>5310482</data_id>
>>>>> </row
>>>>> </select>
>>>>> </database>
>>>>>
> >
>
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