Ajax's XMLHTTPRequest depends on ActiveX to work in IE6, you are
already using it.
- ricardo
On Oct 15, 4:00 am, KenLG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because I don't want to deal with the customer service calls generated
> by the ActiveX objects. Plenty of people working in corporate
> cubbyholes get their computers locked down so that ActiveX isn't
> allowed to execute. Not that I really want to worry about IE6 but I
> can't exclude them yet. :)
>
> And, I know it's technically not an xml parser but it's not an HTML
> parser either unless the underlying code only recognizes HTML tags. In
> a way, it seems more like an SGML parser.
>
> Still doesn't explain why it works in some browsers and not the other
> (i.e. FF2 vs FF3).
>
> kn
>
> On Oct 8, 10:10 pm, "Michael Geary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Well... Really, it doesn't work *at all*. You're not using anXMLparser.
> > It's an HTML parser. Sure, it will do some kind of passable job of parsing
> > some kinds ofXML, sort of, in some browsers.
>
> > Why not use a realXMLparser?
>
> > function parseXML(xml) {
> > if( window.ActiveXObject && window.GetObject ) {
> > var dom = new ActiveXObject( 'Microsoft.XMLDOM' );
> > dom.loadXML(xml);
> > return dom;
> > }
> > if( window.DOMParser )
> > return new DOMParser().parseFromString(xml, 'text/xml' );
> > throw new Error( 'NoXMLparser available' );
> > }
>
> > A quick test:
>
> > var dom = parseXML('<foo what="isit"><bar>howdy</bar></foo>');
> > var $dom = $(dom);
> > console.log( $dom.find('foo').attr('what') ); // "isit"
> > console.log( $dom.find('bar').text() ); // "howdy"
>
> > You could make it a plugin:
>
> > jQuery.parseXML = function(xml) {
> > return jQuery( parseXML(xml) );
> > };
>
> > And then you can replace the first two lines of the test code above with:
>
> > var $dom = $.parseXML('<foo what="isit"><bar>howdy</bar></foo>');
>
> > -Mike
>
> > > From: KenLG
>
> > > It may not be supported but it works great...usually.
>
> > > As far as find being case-sensitive, the weird thing is that
> > > it doesn't necessarily seem true. I could lcase the tags in
> > > theXMLbut still do the find against the mixed case element
> > > name and it still works. I had this suspicion that jquery is
> > > doing that find in a case- insensitive way.
>
> > > Actually, something I forgot to try: FireFox 3 works just
> > > fine with the mixed caseXML. Weird. I guess I'll just have
> > > to deal until FF2 gets phased out.
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > kn
>
> > > On Oct 6, 2:42 am, "Erik Beeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > To my knowledge,XMLparsing via the jQuery constructor
> > > isn't supported.
>
> > > > See here:http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3143
>
> > > > --Erik
>
> > > > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, KenLG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > For much of my app, I'm doing an Ajax hit to the server
> > > to grabXML.
> > > > > That works great.
>
> > > > > But, in some cases, I've got too many pieces of data (unrelated)
> > > > > that I need to pull so I'm trying to do a simple passthrough from
> > > > > the server side (I'm using ASP.Net). So, I'll either
> > > output from SQL
> > > > > Server or hand-stitch someXMLand write it to the page.
>
> > > > > Whenever I do this passthrough (whether it comes from SQL
> > > Server or
> > > > > from my own efforts), theXMLdoesn't get parsed by Jquery.
>
> > > > > For example:
>
> > > > > var sTestXML = '<?xmlversion="1.0"?>\r
> > > > > \n<EventContacts><EventContact><EventContactData>Hello</
> > > > > EventContactData></EventContact></EventContacts>\r\n';
>
> > > > > var test = $(sTestXML);
>
> > > > > alert(test.find("EventContact").length);
>
> > > > > will result in the alert showing zero.
>
> > > > > Now, if I lower case some of the tags (and this will vary
> > > fromXML
> > > > > doc toXMLdoc but usually it's the root and object-level tags),
> > > > > it'll work. What's going on here?- Hide quoted text -
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