You mean something like this:

      alert(dataId[0].item(0).getAttribute("id"));

- does not work.

On Nov 14, 9:37 am, Mike Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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