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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