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

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