xmlhttprequest not working

[jason.lucey]

Hi,

I need some help figuring this out. I cannot get the xmlhttprequest
object to return responseXML or getAllResponseH eaders. responseText
works fine, but i'd rather use xPath than regular expressions to
populate some tables.

I'm using the XMLHttpRequest object for Mozilla and the
ActiveXObject(" Msxml2.XMLHTTP" ) for IE.

Here is the javascript:

//script to load the xml doc using xmlhttprequest or xmlhttp
if(xDoc) {
xDoc.open("GET" ,url,false);
xDoc.setRequest Header("Content-Type","text/xml");

if(window.Activ eXObject){
xDoc.send("");
} else {
xDoc.send(null) ;
}

if (xDoc.readyStat e==4) {
alert(xDoc.resp onseText); //works fine
var xHead;
xHead = xDoc.getAllResp onseHeaders();
alert(xHead); //returns null
xDoc = xDoc.responseXM L.xml;
alert(xDoc.leng th); //returns 0
} else {
alert("Error--readyState: " + xDoc.readyState );
}
}
Any help would be great.

thanks.

[km0ti0n]

xDoc = xDoc.responseXM L.xml;

Only IE has the .xml property, also try accessing the documentElement
of xDoc.responseXM L.

It might help if you show some of the xml that's beening returned. Is
it actually well formed XML.

Also if you want to use XPath Mozilla / FireFox doesn't have the
selectNodes / selectSingleNod e that IE Has. This is my implymentation
of it :

http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk/mozXPath.xap

Hope that helps

[Dr Clue]

ja*********@gma il.com wrote:

Hi,

I need some help figuring this out. I cannot get the xmlhttprequest
object to return responseXML or getAllResponseH eaders. responseText
works fine, but i'd rather use xPath than regular expressions to
populate some tables.

I'm using the XMLHttpRequest object for Mozilla and the
ActiveXObject(" Msxml2.XMLHTTP" ) for IE.

Here is the javascript:

//script to load the xml doc using xmlhttprequest or xmlhttp
if(xDoc) {
xDoc.open("GET" ,url,false);
xDoc.setRequest Header("Content-Type","text/xml");

if(window.Activ eXObject){
xDoc.send("");
} else {
xDoc.send(null) ;
}

if (xDoc.readyStat e==4) {
alert(xDoc.resp onseText); //works fine
var xHead;
xHead = xDoc.getAllResp onseHeaders();
alert(xHead); //returns null
xDoc = xDoc.responseXM L.xml;
alert(xDoc.leng th); //returns 0
} else {
alert("Error--readyState: " + xDoc.readyState );
}
}

I'm guessing these are just code fragments, as xDoc.readyState would
probably not make it to 4 in time to get to the part that //works .
(xDoc.onreadyst atechange)

I'm staring at this waiting for something to jump out at me , but
I'm leaning towards the thought that there may be more to this problem
than what we can see here

I myself have already made this journey, and the result was that
I created a little library jsXMLlib.js that merged the functionality
of XMLDOM and XMLHTTP into a little javascript class. Declaring a new
connection goes like this new DCxml(yourURL,y ourCallbackFunc tion)
and as a bonus , I can open many connections at the same time.

Perhaps if you had a sample URL , where we could see what your trying to
do in it's totality.

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[jason.lucey]

Well, I tried the documentElement s property too, and that didn't work
either. here is some more fun. The status and statusText properties
don't return:

....
if (xDoc.readyStat e==4) {
alert(xDoc.stat usText); //returns "unknown"
alert(xDoc.resp onseText); //works fine
....

also, I did have this code working in IE when I used the DomDocument3.0
active X object. however, in xmlhttp it doesn't work (well, the
responseText method works).

here is a node of the XML file. i haven't edited this since it worked
fine before:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes " ?>
<?META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xml"?>
<product>
<item>
<sSpec_Number >[deleted]</sSpec_Number>
<EPM_Product_Na me>[deleted]</EPM_Product_Nam e>
<Architecture >[deleted]</Architecture>
<L2_Cache>512KB </L2_Cache>
<Clock__Speed>3 </Clock__Speed>
<Front_Side_Bus _Speed>800</Front_Side_Bus_ Speed>
<Other_Technolo gies>[deleted]Other_Technolog ies>
</item>
</product>

yeah, that selectNodes thing is a drag.

Thanks for your help.

km0ti0n wrote:

xDoc = xDoc.responseXM L.xml;

Only IE has the .xml property, also try accessing the documentElement
of xDoc.responseXM L.

It might help if you show some of the xml that's beening returned. Is
it actually well formed XML.

Also if you want to use XPath Mozilla / FireFox doesn't have the
selectNodes / selectSingleNod e that IE Has. This is my implymentation
of it :

http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk/mozXPath.xap

Hope that helps

[km0ti0n]

Indeed, Ian is right. You need to create a handler for the requests.
that you can resue time and time again. It's really simple to generate
a cross browser compatable one. Again there's a link to one on the url
I posted (XHConn) in the Acknolegments,

[jason.lucey]

Unfortunately, I cannot post the whole script. However, the piece that
I posted above is where the problem is. when I built the prototype
(which worked fine), I did it using new ActiveXObject(D omDocument3.0)
instead of new XMLHttpRequest (or new ActiveXObject(m sxml2.XMLHTTP) and
they don't work the same at all, apparently. Since the implimentation
needs to be cross-browser, I'm kinda stuck.

hopefully converting the selectNodes xPath stuff to xmldom won't be so
frustrating.

Thanks.

[km0ti0n]

Use try / catch to test which one of the objects you need to create.

var xhr;
try{ xhr = new ActiveXObject(" Msxml2.XMLHTTP" ); }
catch (e){/*FF fails so use*/ xhr = XMLHttpRequest( );}

But theres a link to a fully functioning example off
http://km0ti0n.blunted.co.uk/mozXPath.xap go to the bottom of the page
and click XHConn.

[Dr Clue]

ja*********@gma il.com wrote:

Unfortunately, I cannot post the whole script. However, the piece that
I posted above is where the problem is. when I built the prototype
(which worked fine), I did it using new ActiveXObject(D omDocument3.0)
instead of new XMLHttpRequest (or new ActiveXObject(m sxml2.XMLHTTP) and
they don't work the same at all, apparently. Since the implimentation
needs to be cross-browser, I'm kinda stuck.

hopefully converting the selectNodes xPath stuff to xmldom won't be so
frustrating.

Thanks.

If you go here http://www.drclue.net/projects/jsDHTMLlib/
and download the jsDHTMLlib.zip, you'll find the jsXMLlib.js
contained in the zip.

It works on IE,NS,*Opera*,F irefox, and just about anything else that
has the support or a way to fake it.

If nothing else , you can look over what I did and clone the
parts you neeed.
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[Matt Kruse]

ja*********@gma il.com wrote:

I need some help figuring this out. I cannot get the xmlhttprequest
object to return responseXML or getAllResponseH eaders.
It appears that you create the object and send the request, but you don't
want for it to come back.
if (xDoc.readyStat e==4) {

Rather than this being immediately after the send call, you need to wait for
your object to trigger an onreadystate change event, then check where it's
at.

To simplify the process, you may want to consider using a generalized lib
like the one found at my Ajaxtoolbox.com site (see sig).

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http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com
http://www.AjaxToolbox.com