Question

* SOLVED * Answer is in separate post below

This code runs fine in FireFox but it will not run in Internet Explorer 8. It gives me the error of “access denied. Is there something I am missing?

function loadXMLDoc(dname){
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest){
        var xhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
    else{
        var xhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    xhttp.open("GET", dname,false);
    xhttp.send();
    return xhttp.responseXML;
}
var xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("notSchema.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('ROOT_NODE_ID');

It specifically doesn’t like the .open() and the .send()

Edited…

var x;

function loadXMLDoc(dname){
var request = $.ajax({
    url: dname,
    type: "GET",
    async: false,
    data: {},
    success: function(http){
        xmlDoc = http;
        alert(http);
        x=http.getElementsByTagName("ROOT_NODE_ID");
    },
    error: function(html){
        alert('failure: ' + html);
    }       
});

}

loadXMLDoc("notSchema.xml");

for (var i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{

if(x[i].childNodes[0] == undefined) {
    treeArray[count]="null";
    count++;
}else{
    //return ROOT_NODE_ID

    treeArray[count]=x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
    count++;
}
}

Edited the Code once again. What I’m trying to do is load the XML, parse for the tag “ROOT_NODE_ID” and then get that value and store it into an array

When I run that code in firefox, it returns 51, which is the number of ROOT_NODE_ID tags and fills the tree that I am making.
When I run the same exact code in IE8, it does not even alert.

I’m Stumped.

Answer 1

I figured it out. Like I said before, if you run the code above in Firefox, it returns the ‘object’ and if you run it in IE8, it returns the contents of the object. I solved this problem by loading the content of the object again in IE8, thus turning the content of the object back into an object that will be ready to be parsed. If that makes any sense.

Just to clarify to people that are just visiting this thread. When I called ‘alert(http);’ in firefox, it would return ‘[object XMLDocument]’, but in IE8 it would return the actual contents of ‘[object XMLDocument]’.

var treeArray=new Array();
var count = 0;
var x;

function loadXMLDoc(dname){
var request = $.ajax({
    url: dname,
    type: "GET",
    async: false,
    data: {},
    success: function(http){
        var xmlDocument = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
        //Loading the contents of the object 'http' a second time, which turns it into an object again. 
        xmlDocument.loadXML(http);
        x = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("ROOT_NODE_ID");
        alert(x.length);
    },
    error: function(html){
        alert('failure: ' + html);
    }       
});

}

loadXMLDoc("notSchema.xml");

for (var i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{

if(x[i].childNodes[0] == undefined) {
    treeArray[count]="null";
    count++;
}else{
    //return ROOT_NODE_ID

    treeArray[count]=x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
    count++;
}
}