Ok, perhaps that's a provocative subject line, but it is my basic question. I'm testing jQuery's capacity for parsing XML files, and have immediately hit the error:
Access to restricted URI denied" code: "1012 This came simply from replicating the example at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/10/10/jquery-and-xml.html and running it locally via File|Open (no server). If I run the code on Apache (http:// www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/jquery_xml1.html) it works fine. A search for the error string shows that it's common and is caused by a "cross-domain" XML request (strange as it's running locally), and a couple of discussions suggest using JSON instead. Now, I'm not going to recast my XML docs as JSON, so before I go any further I would like to know if jQuery can be used to parse XML files on local disk? It has to be local disk as this is for a desktop application which won't rely on a live connection. If not, no bother, I'll use something else, maybe Flash or Flex; if so, I'd appreciate tips as to how to get past this fatal error. Nothing's ever easy in the Javascript world... ;( Cheers Fred PS: Is there a way of getting notification of replies to a thread on this group, anyone know?
