Javascript: Not reading XML correctly.

[~J~]

One of them days today

Can someone show why the following XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?>
 <node text="Top" parentID="0">
  <node text="Spirits" parentID="" tag="1">
   <node text="Brandy" parentID="1" tag="B">
    <node text="Cognac / Armagnac" parentID="B" tag="10">
     <node text="Cognac" parentID="10" tag="23" />
     <node text="Armagnac" parentID="10" tag="8" />
    </node>
    <node text="Other Brandy" parentID="B" tag="19">
     <node text="Grape Brandy" parentID="19" tag="162">
      <node text="Other Grape Brandy" parentID="162" tag="125" />
     </node>
     <node text="Grape EDV" parentID="19" tag="164">
      <node text="Fine (EDV)" parentID="164" tag="92" />
      <node text="Grappa" parentID="164" tag="34" />
      <node text="Singani" parentID="164" tag="105" />
      <node text="Pisco" parentID="164" tag="102" />
      <node text="Marc / Lie" parentID="164" tag="100" />
     </node>
    </node>
   </node>
  </node>
 </node>

Doesn't render correctly please.

I'm running this code which seems to 'pop-up' all over the place for traversing XML files.

 function loadXML(xmlFile)
 {
  xmlDoc.async="false";
  xmlDoc.onreadystatechange=verify;
  xmlDoc.load(xmlFile);
 }
 function verify()
 { 
  if(xmlDoc.readyState!=4)
   return false; 
 }
function traverse(tree) {
        if(tree.hasChildNodes()) {
                document.write('<ul><li>');
                document.write('<b>'+tree.tagName+' : </b>');
                var nodes=tree.childNodes.length;
                for(var i=0; i<tree.childNodes.length; i++)
                        traverse(tree.childNodes(i));
                document.write('</li></ul>');
        }
        else
                document.write(tree.text);
}
 
 function initTraverse(file)
  {
  loadXML(file);
  var doc=xmlDoc.documentElement;
  traverse(doc);
 }

(Yes I know I'm not getting the attribute "text", I can cover that later, but it's still not rendering the correct child nodes, as if it's omitting the last one per child)

Totally stumped.

 

[~J~]

Yeah got that, actually have the following:

 var xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
 
 initTraverse("test.xml");

"for now" the IE thing isn't a problem as my testing is in IE, however would be interested to know of any cross-platform methods.

 

[~J~]

OK still having issues with this so going to look at it from a different angle.

Can someone recommend a good tutorial that will:

Allow me to traverse an XML document with children
Cross Platform
Ideally NOT using the Microsoft XMLDOM ActiveX component.

TIA.