The perl script sends an application/xml header. And where am I
bypassing UTF encoding?
(The responseXML in the code shouldn't have been there by the way, it
was just a leftover from my attempts to work around the problem)
On Jun 25, 6:16 pm, "Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> q:when is an xml not an xml?
>
> a:when it's got the wrong header!
>
> if a browser doesn't think the xml is xml, you get an empty responseXML
>
> look at the pl program and make sure it's setting a header for ie to know
> it's really setting the right header.
>
> as an aside, I hope you never get an address on Jürgenstraße, you are
> bypassing utf encoding!
>
> On 6/25/07, Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > I am writing an application that looks up addresses based on post
> > codes. I have modified the perl script that the database provider
> > supplied to output XML, and now I need to write some client side
> > javascript to parse the results.
>
> > At the moment I'm at a very early stage and thought it would be a good
> > idea to process the XML with jquery but I have run into something of a
> > snag.
>
> > var addressLookupScript = '/cgi-bin/getAddress.pl'
>
> > function listAddresses (xml)
> > {
> > console.log (xml);
> > $('address', xml.responseXML).each (function (index)
> > {
> > console.log (index);
> > });
> > }
>
> > $(document).ready (function ()
> > {
> > var addressField = $('#address');
> > $('#lookup').click (function ()
> > {
> > $.ajax ({
> > type : 'GET',
> > dataType : 'xml',
> > url : addressLookupScript +
> > '?address=' + addressField.val (),
> > success : function (response)
> > {listAddresses (response);}
> > });
> > });
> > });
>
> > As you can see the script doesn't do very much yet, it just loops over
> > the returned XML and outputs an index number of each loop.
>
> > I found that this approach works perfectly in FireFox, but when I
> > tried to run the same code in Internet Explorer, nothing happened.
> > Firebug Lite just logged an empty line at the console.log (xml) line
> > and didn't execute the loop.
>
> > I think that logically my code is correct, but there is something
> > about it that IE doesn't like. If you can shed some light on this I'd
> > appreciate a fix or a workaround of some sort.
>
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> Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ - יעקב ʝǡǩȩ ᎫᎪᏦᎬ
