I want to parse some data from a XML-file using Javascript. It worked fine with Google Chrome, but now I found a problem using Safari. I get an error because of the call xml_genre.children: this element does not contain the information children in Safari, but I can run this in Chrome without problems.
The only solution I found is to use the childnodes, but there I also get some unwanted data, like multiple spaces.
Is there a better solution to iterate through a XML like this using Javascript?
Extract from the XML-file:
<genres>
<genre>Thriller</genre>
<genre>Comedy</genre>
</genres>
Extract from the Javascript-code:
var xml_genre = movie_file.getElementsByTagName("genres")[0];
if (xml_genre != null) {
var genres = new Array();
for(var i = 0; i < xml_genre.children.length; i++) {
genres.push(xml_genre.children[i].textContent);
}
movie.setGenre(genres);
}
Now I took a different approach. This works in Chrome and Safari as I need it:
var xml_genres = movie_file.getElementsByTagName("genres")[0];
if (xml_genres != null) {
var xml_genre = xml_genres.getElementsByTagName("genre");
var genres = new Array();
for(var i = 0; i < xml_genre.length; i++) {
genres.push(xml_genre[i].textContent);
}
movie.setGenre(genres);
}