Read XML string attributes with Javascript

[rjvrnjn]

I have a XML string returned from SQL server as a result of select query. The XML string looks like:

<row col1="value1", col2="value2"/><row col1="value12", col2="value22"/>

At the client side I want to read a specific row based on the user selected value.

For example, if the user selects a drop down item whose value is "value1" I want to read the col2 value from the xml string where the col1 value is "value1". How can I achieve this? It seems doable, but being a n00b in web programming I'm unable to get hold of this thing.

Thanks.

[vee10]

This link may help u

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/xmljs.aspx

I have a XML string returned from SQL server as a result of select query. The XML string looks like:

<row col1="value1", col2="value2"/><row col1="value12", col2="value22"/>

At the client side I want to read a specific row based on the user selected value.

For example, if the user selects a drop down item whose value is "value1" I want to read the col2 value from the xml string where the col1 value is "value1". How can I achieve this? It seems doable, but being a n00b in web programming I'm unable to get hold of this thing.

Thanks.

[acoder]

This link may help u

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/scripting/xmljs.aspx

Ugh! IE-only :(

Try something cross-browser instead. See how you can access nodes.

[rjvrnjn]

Hmmm... I'd been through those articles. On looking through the code more I realised that my XML was not well formed. The root element was missing (as the XML code emited by SQL server didn't have the root node). I modified the XML string to enclose it between <root></root> (it could have been anything else). And wow that worked.

Thanks guys for your time.

[acoder]

Seeing as you said you were new to all this, I thought a good tutorial would help, not to mention the fact that I hate IE-only tutorials when there's a clear alternative for other browsers.

Anyway, glad that you've fixed it. That is one of the first things to check.