Soggy Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 Hi, I am fairly new to javascript and still finding my feet so if i am not been clear in my question let me know. I am using the chart.js to build graphs in my docuemnts and it works great, I am now trying to expand this by linking to an xml file I have set up. If I use the following code I can retrieve the data fine: xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("rego.xml");var nSubOrg = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('SubOrg');var nRev = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Revenue');var nCol = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Colour');var nHL = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('HLight'); //chart data for Chart.JS var dData = [ { value: (nRev[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue), color: (nCol[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue), highlight: (nHL[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue), label: (nSubOrg[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue) }, { value: (nRev[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue), color: (nCol[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue), highlight: (nHL[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue), label: (nSubOrg[1].childNodes[0].nodeValue) }, { value: (nRev[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue), color: (nCol[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue), highlight: (nHL[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue), label: (nSubOrg[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue) }]; However I am trying to make this a bit more functional so want to loop through to create the multidimension array. I have found other snippets which gve me an idea about how to do this but I just can't get it work. I think something like this should but can't get my head round the exact syntax: xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("rego.xml");var nSubOrg = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('SubOrg');var nRev = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Revenue');var nCol = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('Colour');var nHL = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('HLight');//try and build arrayvar dData=new array[()]for (i=0; i<nRev.length; i++) { dData[i].push( value: (nRev[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue), color: (nCol[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue), highlight: (nHL[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue), label: (nSubOrg[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue) ); }; Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Soggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted April 8, 2015 Share Posted April 8, 2015 You need to surround your object definition with curly brackets, that's the only problem I see. Your browser's error console should be showing error messages about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soggy Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Cheers for the help, not quite got it working yet but will need to mess around a little I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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