Javascript / XML

Fri Jun 20 03:56:46 BST 2003

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, David Joham wrote:

> 
> Hi all...
> 
> A while back, I had a conversation with Peter Kelly about this topic. He mentioned that he was
> looking into adding .load() support for Konq 3.2, but he didn't fully commit to doing it. Peter,
> if you're listening, do you have a status report?

It's on my TODO list (along with many other things). Time is my main issue 
at the moment :(

It's unlikely that it will be in 3.2, but hopefully at some stage I will 
get to it.

> 
> <selfless_plug>
> Shawn, you might also be interested in a little pet project of mine called XML for <SCRIPT> which
> provides a DOM and a SAX parser for browsers in JavaScript. Works with Konq, Moz, IE and Opera.
> You can find more info at http://xmljs.sf.net
> </selfless_plug>
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
> --- "Shawn P. Garbett" <listman at garbett.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 June 2003 02:26 pm, Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 June 2003 2:14 pm, Alex Russell wrote:
> > > >On Thursday 19 June 2003 1:58 pm, Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> > > >> What level of XML support is in Javascript?
> > > >
> > > >...
> > > >Konqueror has pretty good DOM support for (X)HTML documents, although
> > > >I can't speak to how well konq supports XML with arbitrary DTDs.
> > >
> > > Well my experience so far is that it doesn't, at all. The load method just
> > > throws and exception the moment I try to load an XML document.
> > 
> > I decided to see if I could get javascript to load a valid HTML or XHTML with 
> > the same code. It throws an exception and exits, so even this is causing me 
> > grief.
> > 
> > Is document.load a standard function? If not, how do I load a document in 
> > "standard" javascript?
> > 
> > <html><head><title>crash.html</title></head>
> > <body>
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > function loadHTML(url)
> > {
> >   alert("loadHTML("+url+")");
> > 
> >   try 
> >   {
> >     // Use the standard DOM Level 2 technique, if it is supported
> >     if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
> >     {
> >      // Create a new Document object
> >       var xmldoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
> >       xmldoc.load(url);
> >       alert("Made the load");
> >     }
> >   }
> >   catch(ex)
> >   {
> >     alert ("CAUGHT EXCEPTION!");
> >   }
> > }
> > 
> > loadXML(location.href);
> > 
> > </script> </body> </html>
> > 
> > 
> 
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