Pat,
Is the xml doc on a different domain than the html file? In which case,
it's not possible to use xml http requests to load it. Otherwise, if you
could give us a URL to the html so it's easier to debug.
David
pat wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Sorry in advance for the potentially dumb question ... however, if
> anyone could point me in the direction of a solution, I'd be more than
> grateful.
>
> I have implemented a local deployment of timeplot behind an Apache
> server (which works) and now am attempting to overlay timeline events.
>
> I'm passing a very simple example (a modified "example1.xml" from the
> docs, reproduced below). It fails w/ the beautifully-cryptic "Error
> handling onReadyStateChange".
>
> Using a series of alert statements, I find this info in the response
> object:
>
> xmlhttp.getResponseHeader("Content-Type") : application/xml
> responseXML : [object XMLDocument]
> status : 200
>
> ... and the error caught is "event.getTime is not a function".
>
> So we evidently don't have the xml DOM object expected because we're
> not parsing out the events properly (or so I'm thinking).
>
> I've begun parsing the rest of the responseXML object, and am finding
> about what I'd expect - a nested series of Text and Element nodes -
> but truthfully, I'm not sure what the parse tree needs to look like.
>
> I expect I'm missing something as big as a 2x4 while looking for
> sawdust - and if anyone could point it out, I'd be very grateful.
>
> Best Regards
>
> - Pat
>
>
> ***** (excerpted) timeplot embedded javaascript file *****
>
>
> <!--Get the timeplot api from the local repository -->
> <script type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript"
> src = "/timeplot/api/1.0/timeplot-api.js?local">
> </script>
>
> <!--Instansiates the timeplot objects on page load -->
> <script type = "text/javascript">
> function onLoad() {
> var timeplot;
> var eventSource5 = new Timeplot.DefaultEventSource();
>
> var timeGeometry = new Timeplot.DefaultTimeGeometry({
> gridColor: new Timeplot.Color("#000000"),
> axisLabelsPlacement: "bottom"
> });
>
> var plotInfo = [
> Timeplot.createPlotInfo({
> id: "plot5",
> eventSource: eventSource5,
> timeGeometry: timeGeometry,
> lineColor: "#D0A825"
> })
>
> events = EVENTDIR + "example.xml";
> timeplot.loadXML(events, eventSource5);
>
>
>
> ******** the xml file *********
>
> <data>
> <event
> start="May 28 2008 09:00:00 GMT"
> end="Jun 15 2008 09:00:00 GMT"
> isDuration="true"
> title="Writing Timeline documentation"
> image="http://simile.mit.edu/images/csail-logo.gif";
> >
> A few days to write some documentation for <a href="http://
> simile.mit.edu/timeline/">Timeline</a>.
> </event>
>
> <event
> start="Jun 16 2008 00:00:00 GMT"
> end="Jun 26 2008 00:00:00 GMT"
> title="Friend's wedding"
> >
> I'm not sure precisely when my friend's wedding is.
> </event>
>
> <event
> start="Aug 02 2008 00:00:00 GMT"
> title="Trip to Beijing"
> link="http://travel.yahoo.com/";
> >
> Woohoo!
> </event>
>
> >
>
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