The full code for the XML DOM navigation can be copied and tested in your browser
<html>
<head>
<title>
</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
margin: 0px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
// put the document into a javascript string variable
var xmltxt = "<customerlist>";
xmltxt += "<customer>";
xmltxt += "<name>John Doe</name>";
xmltxt += "<address>1 Main Street</address>";
xmltxt += "<tel>123-456-7890</tel>";
xmltxt += "</customer>";
xmltxt += "<customer>";
xmltxt += "<name>Jane Doe</name>";
xmltxt += "<address>3 Main Street</address>";
xmltxt += "<tel>987-654-3210</tel>";
xmltxt += "</customer>";
xmltxt += "</customerlist>";
// load the xml string variable into a DOM object. The code syntax for firefox &
// other browsers differ from i.e. so you have to code for the users browser
if(window.DOMParser){
// non i.e. browser
xmlparser = new DOMParser();
xmlDoc = xmlparser.parseFromString(xmltxt, "text/xml");
}else{
// i.e. browser
xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.loadXML(xmltxt);
}
root = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("customerlist")[0];
customers = root.childNodes;
customer1namenode = customers[0].firstChild;
customer1telnode = customers[0].lastChild;
alert(customer1namenode.nodeName);/
alert(customer1namenode.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
addressnode = customer1namenode.nextSibling;
alert(addressnode.firstChild.nodeValue);
</script>
</head>
<body>
You should see DOM alerts
</body>
</html>
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