How to retrieve values from xml file and display in html webpage?

Question

The following is the code for XML FILE :

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
   <book id="bk101">
      <author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
      <title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
      <genre>Computer</genre>
      <price>44.95</price>
      <publish_date>2000-10-01</publish_date>
      <description>An in-depth look at creating applications 
      with XML.</description>
   </book>
</catalog>

Need to display the fields in a tabular format in HTML5.

Please follow this URL to Parse the XML and store locally (if you require). — AppMobiGurmeet
– AppMobiGurmeet, Commented Oct 11, 2012 at 8:23

kapoko · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-11 09:51:43Z

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sources: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_to_html.asp

working example: http://kasperkoman.com/xmltohtml/

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","books.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; 

document.write("<table border='1'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("book");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  { 
  document.write("<tr><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("author")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("genre")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("price")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("publish_date")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("description")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td></tr>");
  }
document.write("</table>");

edited Oct 11, 2012 at 9:51

answered Oct 11, 2012 at 7:59

kapoko

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Ishmeet Kalsi Over a year ago

kasper thanx for the help i also tried the same code from w3schools but it is not working on chrome and iE7.

kapoko Over a year ago

Sorry, there were some mistakes in the code, the table tags were not written correctly. Now it should work. I've hosted an example here: kasperkoman.com/xmltohtml (I added one more entry to the xml file for example purposes). Check out the source!

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