Help Please - Coding in Javascript

[newbie123]

Hi

I'm having trouble with my javascript. I retrieving my data from a XML document:

<root>
       <item>Happy
               <item filePath="http://www.smile.com">Smile</item>
               <item filePath="http://www.laugh.com">Laugh</item>
               <item filePath="http://www.haha.com">Haha</item>
      </item>
      <item>Sad
              <item filePath="http://www.cry.com">Cry</item>
              <item filePath="http://www.upset.com">Upset</item>
      </item>
      <item>Angry
              <item......>....</item>
      </item>
</root>
 

The following is the code I have so far:

   function getXMLlinks() 
   { 
      var XMLVal; 
      var itemURL,i; 
      var itemXML; 
      var dropList,nodes; 
      var headNode; 
      var itemNode;         
 
      XMLVal  = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); 
      itemXML = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); 
      itemURL = 'http://www.emotions.xml'; 
 
      XMLVal.open("POST",itemURL, false,"",""); 
      XMLVal.setRequestHeader("content-type","text/xml"); 
      XMLVal.send(''); 
 
      itemXML.loadXML(XMLVal.responseText); 
 
      var root = itemXML.documentElement; 
      var elem = root.getElementsByTagName("item"); 
      var n = itemXML.documentElement.firstChild; 
 
      var numNodes = elem.length; 
      var writeLinks = ""; 
      for (var i=0; i<numNodes; i++) 
      { 
          var elemvalue = elem.item(i).getAttribute("filePath"); 
          if (elemvalue == "null") 
          { 
             writeLinks = writeLinks + elem.text + '<br/>'; 
          } 
          else 
          { 
             writeLinks = writeLinks + '<a href="' + elemvalue + '">' + elem.item(i).text + '</a><br/>' 
          } 
      } 
      linkList.innerHTML = writeLinks; 
 
   } 
 

What I am trying to do is get the first "item" nodes and display it on a webpage. Then place all the child "item" nodes under the first "item" node. For example, on the webpage: happy, sad and angry will be displayed. But when the user clicks onto "happy" it expands and smile, laugh and haha will be displayed. When the user clicks onto smile it will redirect the user to the "smile" webpage.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks!

[vssp]

function countryprocess2()
{

if (http.readyState == 4) {
//alert (http.readyState);
// Split the comma delimited response into an array
if(http.status==200)
{

//alert (http.status);
//alert (http.responseText);
//alert (document.getElementById("Country").value);
document.getElementById("Your_school").length=0;
document.getElementById("Your_school").options[0]=new Option("Select School"," ");

if(http.responseText!="No values")
{

var clist=http.responseText.split("_");
for(i=0;i<clist.length;i++)
{
var myclist=clist[i].split(",");
// alert (myclist);
document.getElementById("Your_school").options[i+1]=new Option(myclist[1],myclist[0]);
}
}
else
{
document.getElementById("Your_school").length=0;
document.getElementById("Your_school").options[0]=new Option("Select School"," ");
}
}

}
}



this code get the xml content to filter the date

vssp