I've never been able to get IE to work locally when using jquery to parse XML. I am not sure what it is but I think it is a security thing in IE. Once you put it on a server though, it should work (at least it did for me).
On Jun 4, 1:51 pm, fredriley <fred.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 2, 6:42 pm, jsuggs <jsu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Basic answer, yes. If you copied and pasted the example html, then > > the url parameter references "labels.xml", which would have to reside > > in the same directory as where you saved the html file. Also, don't > > forget that you also need the jquery file it references as well. > > > So to more succinctly answer you question. You will need to have > > three files in your local directory. > > 1) The html file. > > 2) The jquery file (named jquery.js in that example) > > 3) The xml file (named labels.xml) > > > That should solve your problem. > > After further testing, your solution does solve the problem in Firefox > and Opera but not in IE. So the test > athttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/xml/jquery_xml1.html > works fine in Firefox 3 and Opera online and locally with the "click > here" link expanding, but fails locally in IE7 and of course there are > no error messages. The following files are in the same directory: > > jquery_xml1.html > jquery.js > labels.xml > > This isn't the first time by far that IE has knackered my JS code (and > CSS for that matter), and indeed IE routinely adds 50% or more to my > webdev time, but I was hoping that jQuery functions always work cross- > browser. I'm aiming towards something > likehttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/xml/jquery_xml2.html > where links read from a XML file are displayed in an iframe. > > Any ideas why IE isn't behaving? If I can't get it to behave locally > then this project's off :( > > Cheers > > Fred
