Re: Re: PC IE and AJAX

Dustin Diaz talks about this whitespace issue a bit on his blog and
shows how protoype gets around it if you care to read:
http://www.dustindiaz.com/easier-dom-walking-with-cleanwhitespace/


I liked their clean white space idea alot.

Jim


On 1/23/06, Michel Carroll <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steffan,
>
> your error is in the following line:
> x.options[i]= new Option( (y[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue) ,
> (y[i].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue) ); // 1 is the value  3 is
> the label
>
> in your comment you say that 1 is the value and 3 is the label. This
> is not exactly correct.
>
> IE sees only the element nodes, ignoring the whitespaces, and requires
> y[i].childNodes[3].firstChild.nodeValue
>
> FF can see the whitespace in the xml.
>
> You need to use either an xpath expression, or, perhaps easier here:
> y[i].getElementsByTagName("value")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
>
> and
>
> y[i].getElementsByTagName("label")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
>
> Good luck
>
> Michel
>
> --- In [email protected], "Steffan A. Cline" <steffan@h...> wrote:
> >
> > I ran into this error. On FF and Safari Mac/PC this :
> >
> > http://steffan.hldns.com:85/alex_pilson/index.lasso
> >
> > Looks ok. But on IE PC I get an error saying line 15 character 4 has an
> > error of Object expected.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Is it the null in <a href="javascript:loadOptions(null,'a');">a</a>  ?
> >
> > http://steffan.hldns.com:85/alex_pilson/scripts/functions.js
> > http://steffan.hldns.com:85/alex_pilson/scripts/xmlhandler.js
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Steffan
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