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I can.<BR>I'm just curious why I can't get at it.<br><BR>I tried a couple variations on the firstChild.nodeValue thing and couldn't get that to work either.<BR><br><BR>It just seems dopey that if for instance I'm receiving a dynamic xml structure back from a server call that I can do<BR><br><BR>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">sometextid.setText(interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].id); // an attribute </span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br></span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">or<br></span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br></span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">remove the CDATA tags and have setText work correctly.<br></span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br></span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">but if I encounter CDATA tags in the data I'm forced to recast type?</span><BR><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br></span><BR><br><BR> <BR><br><BR><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:20:53 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: address CDATA?<br><br>
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</style><div class="ecxWordSection1"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Not sure. From the xml directly it’s via firstChild (it see the CDATA as a child node), but xmlToObject obviously drops the object itself into the array.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">But this isn’t the problem: if it were reporting ‘object’ then you’d see ‘object’ on the screen, not undefined.</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">Why can’t you re-cast it?</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 15 August 2011 12:03<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: address CDATA?</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br><br>:-) Yes I know I can recast it.<br><br><br>But how do I get directly to the string within the CDATA tags?<br><br><br>debug( interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].intro_text[0]) // shows "blah" in the debug window <br>debug(typeof interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].intro_text[0]) // reports "object" <br><br><br><br><br>sometextid.setText(interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].intro_text[0]); <br><br><br>Says undefined on screen (because it's reporting as an object?)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<br><br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:32:50 +0100<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: address CDATA?</span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D">String(your[0].expression[0].here);</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 August 2011 15:50<br><b>To:</b> Xerte list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] address CDATA?</span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </span></p><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br><br>Senior moment.<br><br><br>What's the syntax for addressing the CDATA content so it comes out as typeof = string?<br><br><br><br><br><span class="ecxm"><</span><span class="ecxt">content</span><span class="ecxm">></span></span></p><div><div><div><div style="margin-left:12.0pt"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><</span></span><span class="ecxt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">pages</span></span><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">></span></span></p></div><div><div><div style="margin-left:12.0pt"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <</span></span><span class="ecxt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">page id</span></span><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">="</span></span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">1</span></b><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">"></span></span></p></div><div style="margin-left:12.0pt"><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt;text-indent:-24.0pt"><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <</span></span><span class="ecxt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">intro_text</span></span><span class="ecxm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">></span></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'">- <span class="ecxm"> <![CDATA[blah]]></span> </span></p></div><div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span class="b"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <span class="ecxm"> </</span><span class="ecxt">intro_text</span><span class="ecxm">></span></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br><br><br><br><br> <br>interfaceData = ifc.templateData.content[0];<br><br><br>debug(typeof interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].intro_text[0]);<br>//gives me "object"<br><br><br>How do I get at the string directly?<br>I know I could put it in a variable and re-type it, but I want to set text directly:<br><br><br>sometextid.setText(interfaceData.pages[0].page[0].intro_text[0]);<br>//displays undefined - because it's an object<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></span></p></div></div><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><br>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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