How to split one XML into smaller XML; received via a XMLHttpRequest?

[NorbertH]

Hi!

After sending a request to a server via XMLHttpRequest and receiving a
response, I assign an incoming XML from a server via
[...]
var root = request.responseXML.documentElement;
[...]
to the variable root which I process further with root.nodeType,
root.nodeValue, etc...

In my example I have the following XML File:
<activities>
<day date="20061001">
<activity>I did this</activity>
<activity>I did that</activity)
</day>
<day date="20061002">
<activity>I was doing this</activity>
<activity>And this</activity>
<activity>And that</activity>
</day>
<day date="20061003">
<activity>and so on</activity>
</day>
</activities>

Now here is my question: How can I assign the big XML (root:
activities) into e.g. three smaller XML's (with the new root: day) to
an array?

Thanks,

Norbert

[Chad.Burggraf]

On Jan 3, 3:16 pm, "NorbertH" <[e-mail]:

<activities>
<day date="20061001">
<activity>I did this</activity>
<activity>I did that</activity)
</day>
<day date="20061002">
<activity>I was doing this</activity>
<activity>And this</activity>
<activity>And that</activity>
</day>
<day date="20061003">
<activity>and so on</activity>
</day>
</activities>

Now here is my question: How can I assign the big XML (root:
activities) into e.g. three smaller XML's (with the new root: day) to
an array?

var days = root.getElementsByTagName("day");

days will now be an array of "day" nodes. You could also use XPath, but
of course IE doesn't support the DOM Level 3 XPath standard, so you'll
have to do some feature detection. In this simple case
getElementsByTagName would suffice.

Cheers
Chad