Question

I have been searching how to display data from a xml file in a html5 application. I have a html5 web page that has to read data from a xml saved locally in a folder. I have been trying with xslt, java and everything but I really can’t.

Can someone help me please? Any user guide for dummies? Any tip? Thanks!!

Answer 1

I always retrieve my XML using AJAX, so for me:

theXML = xmlhttp.responseXML.documentElement;
// documentElement is the root of the XML

var elementXXX = theXML.getElementsByTagName('elementXXX')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
//This will retrieve a first level element in the XML

If there are multiple nodes, then you have to loop through them and extract the nodeValue in each iteration. I find it helpful to think about the content you want to extract from an XML element as the first Child of the element–

Hope this helps.