HTML page displays XML data

Displays XML data in HTML page

In the following example, we open An XML file ("cd_catalog.xml"), then iterates through each CD element and displays the values ​​of the ARTIST element and TITLE element in the HTML table:

Example

<html>
<body>

<script>
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
 {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
 xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
 }
else
 {// code for IE6, IE5
 xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
 }
xmlhttp.open("GET","cd_catalog.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; 

document.write("<table border='1'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("CD");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
 { 
 document.write("<tr><td>");
 document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("ARTIST")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
 document.write("</td><td>");
 document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
 document.write("</td></tr>");
 }
document.write("</table>");
</script>

</body>
</html>

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To learn more about using JavaScript and For information on XML DOM, please visit our XML DOM Tutorial.