RE: [xmljs-users] Cannot write back to root document object...

[David J. <dj...@ya...>]

Yea!

Good luck with the rest of your project!


David

--- Eljon Greene <eg...@re...> wrote:

> David,
> 
> I just want to say thanks for your assistance...Everything is working fine now....
> 
> Eljon Greene
> Web Software Engineer
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> 
> 
> 
> From: David Joham
> Sent: Fri 7/30/2004 1:42 PM
> To: Eljon Greene; xml...@li...
> Subject: RE: [xmljs-users] Cannot write back to root document object...
> 
> 
> Hi Eljon!
> 
> I think the problem is that you're setting the node Value on the element, rather than the text
> node child of the element. You have
> 
>
pageRoot.getElementsByTagName(tElement).item(tOrder-1).getElementsByTagName('active').item(0).setNodeValue("No");
> 
> which will set the node value of the <active> element, but not the text node under it.
> 
> 
> I think what you want to do is this:
>
pageRoot.getElementsByTagName(tElement).item(tOrder-1).getElementsByTagName('active').item(0).getFirstChild().setNodeValue("No");
> 
> Note the addition of the getFirstChild() call. That will return the text node that you're
> actually
> interested in.
> 
> Actually, on text nodes you're supposed to use setData rather than setNodeValue, but if you look
> at the code, all xmljs does in a setData is call setNodeValue so it doesn't really matter from a
> technical perspective...
> 
> The code above will set the node data/value (the visible text so to speak) of the text node
> enclosed by the <active> node. When reading this value, you'll want to also make sure you're
> reading from the text node to make sure you're actually getting the node value of the text
> object.
> You can sometimes get away with not doing this, but it's not advised.
> 
> Please go ahead and give that a shot and let us know how it turns out....
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> --- Eljon Greene <eg...@re...> wrote:
> 
> > Sure,
> > 
> > Here is an example of the code:
> > 
> > function removeNode(tElement,tOrder){
> > 	if(pageRoot.getElementsByTagName(tElement).item(tOrder-1) !=
> > null) {  
> > 		tNode =
> > pageRoot.getElementsByTagName(tElement).item(tOrder-1); // Get first
> > element by node name (i.e. section, fieldgroup, fields) 
> > 	
> > tNode.getElementsByTagName('active').item(0).setNodeValue("No"); // Set
> > active element to "No"
> > 		try {
> > 	
> > alert(tNode.getElementsByTagName('active').item(0).getNodeValue()); //
> > Displays "No"
> > 	
> > alert(tNode.getElementsByTagName('active').item(0).getXML());  //
> > Displays <active>Yes</active>
> > 			
> > 		} 	catch(e) { // Catch any exception
> > 				if(e.code ==
> > DOMException.NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR) {
> > 					// display the error message 
> > 					alert("XML Exception Error: Code
> > not remove " + tElement + ".");
> > 				} else {
> > 					alert("Unknown exception");
> > 					alert(e.code); 
> > 				}
> > 		}
> > 	} else {
> > 	    alert("Null object");
> > 	}	
> > }
> > 
> > Thanks for your assistance.
> > 
> > Eljon
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xml...@li...
> > [mailto:xml...@li...] On Behalf Of David
> > Joham
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:33 AM
> > To: Eljon Greene; xml...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [xmljs-users] Cannot write back to root document object...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Eljon!
> > 
> > Can you whip up a quick recreation of the problem you're seeing please?
> > I'll take a look and see what's up...
> > 
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > --- Eljon Greene <eg...@re...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hey guys,
> > > 
> > > I am new to XML for <script>.  Everything is coming along pretty good 
> > > except for one thing...That is trying to write back to the parent 
> > > document node so that I can save this information on the server.  I 
> > > can use "DOMNode.setNodeValue()" and then use "DOMNode.getNodeValue()"
> > 
> > > and it works.  However when I try "DOMNode.getXML()" the old value 
> > > still exists...I am trying to use global variables in my method 
> > > instead of the local variables. What am I doing wrong and how do I 
> > > write back to the "DOMDocument"?  Thanks...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Eljon Greene
> > > Web Software Engineer
> > > 877.394.5644 \\ main
> > > 904.567.2127 \\ direct
> > > eg...@re...
> > > www.recruitmax.com
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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