Question

I have a website where users can enter some information in tables. By clicking a button, these information should be stored in a XML document and send with AJAX.

I’ve already tried this to create a XML document, but it isn’t working out.

var xmlDoc = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>';
xmlDoc.append('<customer></customer>');

How do I create a XML document and append further nodes and set attributes?

Answer 1

You cannot use jQuery append method on a string, it will throw js error.

You can try something like this.

var xmlDocument = $.parseXML("<root/>");
var foo = xmlDocument.createElement('foo');
foo.appendChild(document.createTextNode('bar'));
xmlDocument.documentElement.appendChild(foo);

Other way is to create a XML string based on the tabular information available on the page and then use $.parseXML() method to create XML document.