parsing the <link> element tag

[Doug.Sheahan]

I am attempting to parse and xml file using javascript but am running
into a problem when parsing a <link></link> pair. For example, the
link information in most RSS feeds is given as

<link> http://www.something.com/someotherstuff </link>

However, when I use item.getElementsByTagName("link"), I get an empty
HTMLLinkObject back and if I print the innerHTML property of item, the
<link> tag shows up but not the </link> tag. Does anyone know of a
javascript solution to this?

Thanks,
-Doug

 

[Bart Van der Donck]

I am attempting to parse and xml file using javascript but am running
into a problem when parsing a <link></link> pair. For example, the
link information in most RSS feeds is given as

<link> http://www.something.com/someotherstuff </link>

However, when I use item.getElementsByTagName("link"), I get an empty
HTMLLinkObject back and if I print the innerHTML property of item, the
<link> tag shows up but not the </link> tag. Does anyone know of a
javascript solution to this?

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
xmlDoc.async = false;
xmlDoc.load('file.xml');
doAlert();
}

else if (document.implementation
&& document.implementation.createDocument) {
xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument('', '', null);
xmlDoc.load('file.xml');
xmlDoc.onload = doAlert;
}

else {
alert('Browser can´t support script!');
}

function doAlert() {
alert(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('link')[0].firstChild.nodeValue);
}
</script>