Googled around, but most of the methods seem overly complicated, using libraries etc.
There’s not an easy way to turn a basic XML file into an array in JS?
XML file looks something like this:
<goods>
<unit id="4325" loc1="2hrs" loc2="4hrs" loc3="12hrs" desc="Container 4325" />
<unit id="4326" loc1="2.5hrs" loc2="5hrs" loc3="12hrs" desc="Container 4326" />
</goods>
Do you just need the xml parser for like a textbox, or are you trying to read a local/remote file?
if you use jQuery, its really easy:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
function parseXml(xml)
{
$(xml).find("unit").each(function()
{
var xmlUnit = $(this);
var retStr = '';
retStr = retStr+ "id: "+xmlUnit.attr("id")+"n";
retStr = retStr+ "loc1: "+xmlUnit.attr("loc1")+"n";
retStr = retStr+ "loc2: "+xmlUnit.attr("loc2")+"n";
retStr = retStr+ "loc3: "+xmlUnit.attr("loc3")+"n";
retStr = retStr+ "desc: "+xmlUnit.attr("desc")+"n";
alert(retStr);
});
}
$("#btnParse").click(function() {
parseXml($("#theXml").val());
});
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#content { width: 600px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center; }
#theXml { width: 550px; height: 550px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content">
<form id="xmlForm" name="xmlForm" action="">
<p><textarea id="theXml" name="theXml"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="button" name="btnParse" id="btnParse" value=" Parse XML " /></p>
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Googled around, but most of the methods seem overly complicated, using libraries etc.
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"overly complicated" and "using libraries" don’t really go together. Libraries exist to solve complicated, common problems…like this one! Try the library noon suggested, it’s a popular one.
Easiest way might to convert the XML into a JSON object
JSON is a javascript Array