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Hello all-- I have a question regarding the use of XPath in IE5+. What I am trying to do is build an html page that loads xml data from a file, then gives users the ability to filter/sort the data. The way I am attempting to go about this is as follows (see actual code below): 1) on page load, create MSXML2.DOMDocument object, load data, set selection language of object to XPath. 2) Select all nodes ("/") into a "display" object 3) Loop through display object, creating rows/cells in an HTML table 4) When the user specifies a filter, reset display object to have only selected records from original XML object, clear the table, then repeat step 3 to display only selected records. This all works except step 4. I do not get any errors, but all records are displayed instead of the selection. BTW, I tried my XPath query string in an XPath validation page, and it validates correctly. Any ideas? ------CODE SNIPPETS FOLLOW---- //this code creates the necessary objects var oXML = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument"); oXML.async = false; oXML.validateOnParse=false; if (! oXML.load("test_small.xml")) { alert("unable to load test_small.xml"); } oXML.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath"); var oDisplay = oXML.selectNodes("/"); function load_data() { //display all data in oDisplay in HTML table //empty the table while (tblXML.rows.length > 0) { tblXML.deleteRow(); } //add XML content to table var root = oDisplay.context.firstChild; for (i=0; i<root.childNodes.length; i++) { var doc = root.childNodes(i); var oRow = tblXML.insertRow(); for (j=0; j<doc.childNodes.length; j++) { var oCell = oRow.insertCell(); oCell.innerHTML = doc.childNodes(j).xml; } } } function doFilter() { //oDisplay = oXML.selectNodes("/Index/document[starts-with(user,'J')]"); oDisplay = oXML.selectNodes("/Index/document[user='Joe Blow']"); load_data(); }
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