Problem Extracting from XML in Chrome

[spencerl]

Hello,I'm having trouble with the following code in Chrome:function loadXMLDoc(dname) {if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari xhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); }else {// code for IE6, IE5 xhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }xhttp.open("GET",dname,false);xhttp.send(null);return xhttp.responseXML;}function loaddatabase(){xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("database.xml");x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("item");for (i=0;i<x.length;i++) { z=i+1 t=x.nodeName document.write(t+" "+z+"<br \>"); y=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("item").childNodes; for (ii=0;ii<y.length;ii++) { document.write(y[ii].nodeName); if (y[ii].attributes.length>0) { document.write(" "+y[ii].attributes[0].name+"("+y.item(ii).attributes[0].nodeValue+")"); } document.write(": "+y[ii].childNodes[0].nodeValue+"<br \>"); } document.write("<br \>"); }}The code outputs this in IE7 but not in Chrome:item 1name: Ankigroup: Alltag level(1): Softwaretag level(2): Flash Cardslink: http://ichi2.net/anki/item 2name: AP Tunergroup: Alltag level(1): Softwaretag level(2): Musiclink: http://www.aptuner.com/item 3name: AV-Comparativesgroup: Alltag level(1): Websitetag level(2): Antiviruslink: http://www.av-comparatives.org/In Chrome it looks like this:item 1#text What is the solution to this? Thank you for the help.

[jeffman]

It will do the same in Firefox also. I'll bet your XML files are all "pretty-printed," meaning they have line breaks and indentations. Some xml parsers will ignore that. Others will consider the tabs and stuff to be a text node. That's why it prints #text, and then breaks when asked to examine the length of an attributes property that it does not have.Try adding this line to the top of your for-loop:if (y[ii].nodeName == "#text") continue;

[spencerl]

It will do the same in Firefox also. I'll bet your XML files are all "pretty-printed," meaning they have line breaks and indentations. Some xml parsers will ignore that. Others will consider the tabs and stuff to be a text node. That's why it prints #text, and then breaks when asked to examine the length of an attributes property that it does not have.Try adding this line to the top of your for-loop:if (y[ii].nodeName == "#text") continue;

I removed all the breaks and spaces from my xml document and it worked and then I also tried that line of code you gave me which also worked great. Thanks for the help!I also noticed that when I try to set the size of a selection list it is always set to 4 in chrome. Is there a solution to this as well? My code looks like this:<form><select size="2"></select></form><form><select size="3"></select></form>But I just get a selection list with a size of 4 no matter what.

[jeffman]

Are you also setting the height in CSS, or the height of a parent element?

[spencerl]

Are you also setting the height in CSS, or the height of a parent element?

I haven't written any CSS yet and I haven't set the height anywhere yet. I haven't set the height of any elements at all. I've just used the size attribute and just for that element.