Parsing an XML Document the Easy Way
Once you've read an XML document into memory, like this...
var xmlDocHolder = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument")
xmlDocHolder.load("http://www.davidwall.com\countryList.xml")
...you can begin to read elements of that document. The document
countrylist.xml contains, in part, this structure:
To refer to data, we refer to a nested series of arrays. The element
containing the data "Japan" would be referred to like this:
JapanNode = xmlDocHolder.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0]
That is, we want to refer to the first (0) element (officialName) of
the second (1) element (country) of the first (0) element
(countryList). The word "Japan" itself -- the data -- would be
referenced as:
JapanText = xmlDocHolder.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].text
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