Subj : XML in JS
To   : MCMLXXIX
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 09 2010 03:44 pm

 Re: XML in JS
 By: MCMLXXIX to Digital Man on Fri Aug 06 2010 02:57 pm

> I've been messing around with some XML data files and manipulating them
> within a script, then writing them back out.
>
> Somewhere in this process (either deleting an item or adding one) some
> weird stuff is happening, and I'm not sure if it's something I should be
> doing differently or if it's just the way it is.
>
> I'll post an example of exactly what im doing and what the result is when I
> can narrow it down, but the end result is that a huge amount of commas and
> spaces are getting thrown into the XML object, leaving the file looking
> something like this:
>
> <blahblah>
> ,   ,   ,   ,,,,,,,
>     <blah>
> ,   ,   ,   ,,,,,,,
>     </blah>
> ,   ,   ,   ,,,,,,,
> </blahblah>
>
> it doesnt seem to corrupt the data, but after reading it back in, doing
> some work, and writing it back out a few dozen times, it gets really messy.

Are you using the built-in XML support (E4X) in JavaScript (ECMAScript)?

Without seeing the code, it's hard to diagnose the cause.

                                           digital man

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