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Thanks for replying.yeah like i said. i din't wanna use document.writeanyway i got it working already.I just change the ElementById to anything.. it can be changed and use span to link to that.Messy though..

Hi all,I've searched the forums already but did not find anything that really answers this.So the way W3cschool teaches to get a value of an element shown is like such

function getmessage(){document.getElementById("to").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("to")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

and then we do a

<p><span id="to"></span>

But how do I go about display 2 or more of values from different nodes of the elements with the same tag?W3cschool uses this method

// documentElement always represents the root nodevar x=doc.documentElement;document.write("Text of first child element: ");document.write(x.childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);document.write("<br />");document.write("Text of second child element: ");document.write(x.childNodes[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue);</script>

That would work but how do i go about having to output by using <SPAN id> ? and not using document.write in Java.That would be more flexible when it comes to dealing with css as well.Do i do a var=secondnode=document.getElementById("to").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("to")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;actually i tried that.. din't work.Hope to see some help .. Thanks in advance

I've fixed it But would still like to know any other alternative methods in grabbing CDATA..thanks.

Hi All,I have used the search function and tried looking for a solution b4 posting. I did obtain some help but i'm still left with one problem.I'm trying to build a custom rss reader from feeds generated from windows sharepoint services. In the description element, they use Cdata..

 <description><![CDATA[<div><b>Body:</b> <div class=ExternalClassBFCE56CD2A8F4E2BAF13C24F0AC00BEF><div>Test 1 2 3</div></div></div>]]></description>

I've tried using many ways (started with http://www.w3schools.com/dom/tryit.asp?fil...dom_cdata_data) to output the contents from CDATA but still failed.Values from all other elements (which are non cdata) worked fine.by using

 document.getElementById("author").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("author")[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

is there a specific way to do this? Having able to use the id. instead of the document.write in the example given.Any help will be greatly appreciated!!Thanks.