Subj : XML in JS
To : Digital Man
From : MCMLXXIX
Date : Mon Aug 09 2010 09:55 pm
Re: XML in JS
By: Digital Man to MCMLXXIX on Mon Aug 09 2010 15:44:09
> 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
> > can narrow it down, but the end result is that a huge amount of commas an
> > 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 mess
>
> 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
>
yes built in. I'm still not sure what exactly is doing it, so I'll have to mess
around with it more, but I've had some crashes as a result of bad XML syntax as
well (not failure to compile, but jsexec crashes)
though the above still has yet to corrupt anything, its just a nuisance
