T.J. YOU are a gentleman AND a scholar! I looked everywhere for how to do
this! Hopefully this post will move up in the search engines and others can
find it!
One other question on this...
What if the XML response is:
data
other
stuffmore and more/stuff
/other
states
state code=CACalifornia/state
state code=AKArkansas/state
/states
/data
How do I need to format this line?
states = response.responseXML response.responseXML.firstChild;
(I think I need a good primer on how this is working... LOL)
Thanks,
Pete
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:32 AM, T.J. Crowder t...@crowdersoftware.comwrote:
Hi,
The XML can be in whatever form you find useful to parse. Here's a
complete example that handles an XML response that looks like this:
statesstate code=CACalifornia/statestate code=AKArkansas/
state/states
Code (also -- more readably -- here: http://pastie.org/1097106):
* * * *
!DOCTYPE HTML
html
head
meta http-equiv=Content-type content=text/html;charset=UTF-8
titleTest Page/title
style type='text/css'
body {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#log p {
margin: 0;
padding:0;
}
/style
script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/
libs/prototype/1.6.1.0/prototype.jshttp://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.1.0/prototype.js
'/script
script type='text/javascript'
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
$('btnGo').observe('click', go);
function go() {
new Ajax.Request(getlist.jsp, {
onSuccess: getlistSuccess,
onFailure: getlistFailure,
on0:getlistFailure
});
}
function getlistSuccess(response) {
var states,
state,
selbox,
options;
// Validate response
states = response.responseXML
response.responseXML.firstChild;
if (!states ||
!states.tagName ||
states.tagName != states) {
getlistFailure(response);
return;
}
// Get the select box and its options array (not really an
array)
selbox = $('selectbox');
options = selbox.options;
// Loop the states
for (state = states.firstChild; state; state =
state.nextSibling) {
options[selbox.options.length] = new Option(
state.firstChild.nodeValue,
state.getAttribute(code)
);
}
}
function getlistFailure(response) {
log(getlist call failed);
}
var write = log;
function log(msg) {
$('log').appendChild(new Element('p').update(msg));
}
});
/script
/head
body
input type='button' id='btnGo' value='Go'
brselect id='selectbox'/select
hr
div id='log'/div
/body
/html
* * * *
HTH,
--
T.J. Crowder
Independent Software Consultant
tj / crowder software / com
www.crowdersoftware.com
On Aug 16, 10:00 pm, Phil Petree phil.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
I've looked everywhere for a solution to this and hacked around with it
all
day with no luck.
How do we populate a select box using xml data obtained from an ajax
request.
If what I get back from the fillin example is this:
data
firstJack/first
lastFlash/last
emailjfl...@candlestick.com/email
/data
And I want to add a list of US states to a select box but obviously we
can't
have
stateAK/state
stateAL/state
So question 1 is: What's the correct format for the XML response?
My 2nd question is how do I break out the seperate parts from the
transport
response?
transport.responseXML.getElementsByTagName('$fieldname')[0].firstChild.node
Value;
My 3rd question is, will the following code work for populating the
select
box?
opt.text = Alaska;
opt.value = AK;
$(DropDownStateList).options.add(opt);// Assign
text and value to Option object
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