Node Replacement without HTML tags & empty responseXML

[Anand]

The situation is; I receive a response back from the server which i
only a part of html code. e.g. a table like <table
<tr><td>high</td></tr>........ </table>. In other words, I receive
file as a response which has a part of html file.

My aim is to replace an existing document node with the new response.

If I run the following lines (JavaScript):

var parsedText = document.createTextNode(req.responseText);
body.replaceChild(parsedText, toReplace)

It replaces the node 'toReplace' with html codes with the tags include
which is not what I want. The html tags are not wanted but shoul
display in correct format as specified by html (a tabular form if htm
tag is <table>)

If I try:

alert(responseXML); (its blank.... nth gets displayed in the aler
message)
var parsedText = document.createTextNode(req.responseXML);
body.replaceChild(parsedText, toReplace); (it replaces toReplace b
"[object]" in IE6)
Any kind of help will be appreciated.

Anan

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[Anand]

a similar issue was on this same form

http://www.highdots.com/forums/showt...51#post3327451
but it ended up without any specific solution..... and not ver
relevant to me either
Anan

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[Martin Honnen]

Anand wrote:

The situation is; I receive a response back from the server which is
only a part of html code. e.g. a table like <table>
<tr><td>high</td></tr>........ </table>. In other words, I receive a
file as a response which has a part of html file.

My aim is to replace an existing document node with the new response.

If I run the following lines (JavaScript):

var parsedText = document.createTextNode(req.responseText);
body.replaceChild(parsedText, toReplace)

How about
toReplace.innerHTML = req.responseText;
? That should do what you want. Note that there might be smarter ways of
doing things if you use Mozilla as there you could directly load XHTML
and then use DOM importNode but as you have not shown us the context the
innerHTML assigment is probably your best bet at cross browser replacement.
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[Anand]

that worked for me.
Thanks a lo

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[Anand]

One more question on this issue.
Can I treat the req.responseText as a string an manipulate it? By tha
I mean, if I am sent two different tables to be inserted at tw
different locations, I will have to be able to access the response an
separate those two tables before inserting them at specifie
locations.

e.g. If my response is as shown below

INSERT IN PARENT NODE: 'FORM'
<table id="mytable">
...
...
</table>

INSERT IN PARENT NODE: 'DIV'
<table id = "yourtable">
...
...
</table>

Can I access it via 'for' loop or any other method so that I ca
extract each table using some code in javascript?

Anan

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