Hello guys! here is a search code that was working fine until now.. =( what im trying to do is to select the xml source to be searched using a dropdown.. but now i dont know what's wrong.. just take a look, and let me know if you get it right.. thxx! =)
note: the problem must be on loading the xml and/or dropdown select,, not on the search code...
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type">
<title>Search XML</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = loadIndex;
function loadIndex() { // load indexfile
// most current browsers support document.implementation
if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument) {
var docdoc = document.getElementById('urlfile').value;
xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
xmlDoc.load(docdoc);
}
// MSIE uses ActiveX
else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
var docdoc = document.getElementById('urlfile').value;
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.async="false";
xmlDoc.load(docdoc);
}
}
function searchIndex() { // search the index (duh!)
if (!xmlDoc) {
loadIndex();
}
// get the search term from a form field with id 'searchme'
var searchterm = document.getElementById("searchme").value;
var allitems = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("item");
results = new Array;
if (searchterm.length < 2) {
alert("Please enter at least 2 digits");
}
else {
for (var i=0;i<allitems.length;i++) {
// see if the XML entry matches the search term,
// and (if so) store it in an array
var name = allitems[i].lastChild.nodeValue;
var exp = new RegExp(searchterm,"i");
if ( name.match(exp)!= null) {
results.push(allitems[i]);
}
}
// send the results to another function that displays them to the user
showResults(results, searchterm);
}
}
// Write search results to a table
function showResults(results, searchterm) {
if (results.length > 0) {
// if there are any results, write them to a table
document.write('<div><a href="searchxml.htm">New Search</a></div>You searched for <b><i>'+searchterm+'</i></b><br><br>');
document.write('<table border-top="3px" style="width: 100%; background-color: #cccccc; font-color:#ffffff; border-color:black;">');
document.write('<tr><th>NAME</th><th>AGE</th><th>HEIGHT</th><th>WEIGHT</th></tr>');
for(var i=0; i<results.length; i++) {
document.write('<tr >');
document.write('<td>' + results[i].getAttribute("name") + '<br />');
document.write('<img src="' + results[i].getAttribute("image") + '"></td>');
document.write('<td >' + results[i].getAttribute("age") + '</td>');
document.write('<td>' + results[i].getAttribute("height") + '</td>');
document.write('<td>' + results[i].getAttribute("weight") + '</td>');
document.write('</tr>');
}
document.write('<table>');
document.close();
} else {
// else tell the user no matches were found
var notfound = alert('No results found for '+searchterm+'!');
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body >
<select id="urlfile" onchange="loadIndex()">
<option value="index.xml"> XML 1</option>
<option value="index2.xml"> XML 2</option>
</select>
<form action=""><b>Search: </b>
Name<input id="searchme" type="text" size="20">
<input value="Submit" onclick="searchIndex(); return false;" type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
index.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable_index>
<item name="John" image="profile.png" age="22" height="5 ft 5 inches" weight="150">John</item>
<item name="Paul" image="profile2.png" age="25" height="5 ft 9 inches" weight="168">Paul</item>
<item name="George" image="profile3.png" age="27" height="6 ft 1 inches" weight="175">george</item>
<item name="Ringo" image="profile4.png" age="23" height="6 ft 3 inches" weight="180">ringo</item>
</searchable_index>
index2.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable_index>
<item name="James" image="profile.png" age="22" height="5 ft 5 inches" weight="150">James</item>
<item name="Patrick" image="profile2.png" age="25" height="5 ft 9 inches" weight="168">Patrick</item>
<item name="Carl" image="profile3.png" age="27" height="6 ft 1 inches" weight="175">Carl</item>
<item name="Ronny" image="profile4.png" age="23" height="6 ft 3 inches" weight="180">Ronny</item>
</searchable_index>
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