JavaScript XML Parser

Andrew Layman andrewl at microsoft.com
Thu Jan 1 00:14:45 GMT 1998


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--Andrew Layman
   AndrewL at microsoft.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	mike at datachannel.com [SMTP:mike at datachannel.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 31, 1997 2:41 PM
> To:	'Jeremie Miller'; xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject:	JavaScript XML Parser
> 
> Jeremie,
> Beautiful.
> 
> The only two suggestions I have are:
> 1 Create DOM methods on the JavaScript objects. This way authors can use
> any parser without changing their scripts.
> 2 Don't go overboard with DTD/parameter entities/etc. handling. Full blown
> parsers already exist, and they can be instantiated as an <OBJECT> and
> called from JavaScript. What is needed is a nice lightweight way to
> programmatically read simple XML.
> 
> If you want to really rock the world, do these two things:
> 1 Write an XSL processor in JavaScript.
> 2 Figure out how to read from multiple URLs from JavaScript, without
> blowing away the current page.
> 
> Mike D
> DataChannel
> 
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