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Created May 15, 2014 00:12
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/* Tested with jquery-1.7.2.min.js */
$(window).load(function () {
"use strict";
/* Cycles XML file on successful load via ajax and parses contents into HTML */
function parseXML(xml) {
/* Variable declaration */
var outHTML = "", employee, sId, sFirstname, sSurname, sAddress;
/* For each 'Employee' section in the XML file, extract information */
$(xml).find('Employee').each(function () {
/* Extract and set employee details */
employee = $(this);
sID = $.trim(employee.find('ID').text());
sFirstname = $.trim(employee.find('Firstname').text());
sSurname = $.trim(employee.find('Surname').text());
sAddress = $.trim(employee.find('Address').text());
/* Build HTML segment to put into the main content */
outHTML += "<div class='employee'>";
outHTML += " <p>ID: " + sID + "</p>";
outHTML += " <p>Name: " + sSurname + ", " + sFirstname + "</p>";
outHTML += " <p>Address: " + sAddress + "</p>";
outHTML += "</div>";
});
/* Append the employee to div.content with previously built outHTML var */
$(".content").append(outHTML);
}
/* Displays error to div with class of status if one is thrown from the Ajax parser */
function err(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
$(".status").append("<strong>TextStatus:</strong> " + textStatus + "<br /><strong>ErrorThrown:</strong> " + errorThrown);
}
/* Create ajax object for XML parsing */
/* cache: set to false to ensure xml file is loaded new everytime, set to true otherwise */
/* url: must be absolute path */
$.ajax({
type: "GET"
, contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
, url: "http://www.website.com/file/location/thefile.xml"
, dataType: "xml"
, cache: false
, success: parseXML
, error: err
});
});
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