Question

I am trying load the XML

<Node>
<Subnode a = "1" b = "2" />
<Subnode a = "4" b = "5" />
</Node>



xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.loadXML("c:\\test.xml"); 

var length = xmlDoc.childNodes.length

but length is Zero which is incorrect

Answer 1

From what I see this line is incorrect.

xmlDoc.loadXML("c:\\test.xml"); 

It should be

xmlDoc.load("c:\\test.xml"); 

See API document for the difference between load and loadXML.

Also it’s useful to check for errors, using the parseError property, after calling any of the load methods. Something along these lines:

if (xmlDoc.parseError.errorCode != 0) {
// Handle error
}

In addition, as indicated in the comments, the async property should be false not “false”.