ResponseXML

[Jon W]

Thank you very much for you time and help.

[ckeyrouz]

It seems that it was a caching problem in your browser.
The problem was not due to xml but rather to javascript syntax error.

This is your log:

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 28
Char: 3
Code: 0


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 28
Char: 3
Code: 0

Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 28
Char: 3
Code: 0

The problem was that you should have replaced all occurrences of getElementByTagName with getElementsByTagName.

Object doesn't support this property or method

this shows that there is a syntax error somewhere.

[ckeyrouz]

am glad it worked for you.

[Jon W]

Well, this ajax stuff is all new to me and I'm loving the stuff that it can do but just the other day I learnt and pretty much got a good understanding of how responseText works and then I was thinking it would be cool if I could control where all of the text goes on the page so the only way of doing that is putting into XML form so that then you can put it where you want it on the page.

I spent all last night and some today trying to figure out this problem. I'm sure if it was you coding it you would of had it figured it in minutes but this stuff is all new to me. I've coded PHP for about 3-4 years now PHP isn't the problem, its JavaScript that I'm not totally use to yet. But man it is a cool language!


I wish JavaScript had better error reporting. Kinda like PHP does.

[rnd me]

Originally Posted by Jon W

I wish JavaScript had better error reporting. Kinda like PHP does.

you are using firebug right?

i would venture to say that while the reporting is not as explicit, javascript is easier overall to debug since you can poke around the live environment from firebug. In php, you would have to code your var_dumps ahead of time...

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