Opper-Hooftman

Join Date 04/2008

using XML data in DesktopX

most likely a stupid question...

Hi,

I want to call some data from a xml file...

my script doesn't give me errors which is a good start but there is no data pulled out of my xml-file...

//writing to the buttons on the welcome page
var xmlDoc=null;
xmlDoc= new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

if(xmlDoc!=null){
xmlDoc.async=false;
xmlDoc.load("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/Stijn/fileloc.xml");
file=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("file");

for(i=0;i<=5;i++){
    if (i<file.length){
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=1;
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).text= file[i].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;}
    else DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=0;
}
}

does somebody knows what is going wrong??

& is there a way to make relative links??

thanks!!!!

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Your file path looks wrong. Change to a backslash and not a forward slash.

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my filepath did worked before (on other places of my desktop)
single backslashes will be processed as :
C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorMy DocumentsStijnfileloc.xml

the alternatives are:
with slashes (works in most cases!)
C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/Stijn/fileloc.xml

or double backslashes:
C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\My Documents\\Stijn\\fileloc.xml
(will be processed as : C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Stijn\fileloc.xml

It most be something else... don't now what

and nobody seems to know the answer...

greetz

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Somebdoy??
Anybody??

Even an example on how to get data from a local xml file in VBScript could help me out...
This most be possible in desktopx... isn't it??

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RomanDA

Join Date 12/2003

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I have a different method of getting XML data, and i just tried to make a simple object that reads a local file and outputs the TITLE/DESCRIPTION from it to the object.

'Called when the script is executed
Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
URL = "file:///D:/My%20Data/My%20Documents/QueueRSS.xhtml"
Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp")
http.Open "GET", URL, False
http.send ""
RssData = http.responseText
ItmCount = 0
countstart = 1
Do While countstart <> 0
countstart = Instr(countstart, RssData, "")
If countstart > 1 Then
ItmCount = ItmCount + 1
countstart = countstart + 1
End If
Loop
msgbox "ItmCount: " & ItmCount

RssData = Right(RssData, Len(RssData) - InStr(RssData, "item")+2)
htmlstring = ""

For x = 1 To ItmCount
StoryTitle = xmlstripper("title", RssData)
description = xmlstripper("description", RssData)
object.text = object.text & StoryTitle & vbnewline & description & vbnewline & vbnewline
'---- do what you want with the data here ----

Next

End Sub

'Called when the script is terminated
Sub Object_OnScriptExit

End Sub

'-- Standard XML Stripper Function
Function xmlstripper(param, string)
' Find the xml tag start in the string
datastart = InStr(string, param) + Len(param) + 1
' find how long it is based on the closing tag
datalength = Instr(string, "/" & param) - datastart - 1
' strip out the data to return
xmlstripper = Mid(string, datastart, datalength)
End Function

It COULD be the FILE: in front of the LOCAL files' name. but im not sure of the method you used, so, you can try adding FILE: or try using the method above.

Good luck

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I thought i got some more experience with xml... but my new code end with status =0

Code: javascript
var WSH= new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
var allusers= WSH.Environment("PROCESS")("ALLUSERSPROFILE");
allusers+=" \\XML ";
var xmlDoc;
//Called when the script is executed
function Object_OnScriptEnter(){
 screenreset();
 Scan();
 Object.Comments = folders.length;
loadXMLDoc(allusers+" \\pet.xml ");
}
function loadXMLDoc(url)
{
xmlDoc=null;
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
if (xmlDoc!=null)
  {
  xmlDoc.onreadystatechange=onResponse;
  xmlDoc.open("GET",url,false);
  xmlDoc.send(null);
  }
}
function onResponse(){
if(xmlDoc.readyState!=4) return;
if(xmlDoc.status!=200)
  {
  WSH.Popup(xmlDoc.status,0,"Error",0+48);
  return;
  }
var file=xmlDoc.responseXML.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("pet");
for(i=0;i<=5;i++){
  if (i<file.length){
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=1;
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).text= file[i].getElementsByTagName("state")[0].firstChild.nodeValue;}
    else DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=0;
 }
 }

Somebody out there who can help me?

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To all people intrested: I found the soultion myself, (thanks google )

Code: javascript
xmlDoc=null; 
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); 
xmlDOM=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
if (xmlDoc!=null && xmlDOM!=null) 
  { 
  xmlDoc.onreadystatechange=onResponse; 
  xmlDoc.open("GET",url,false); 
  xmlDoc.send(null); 
  } 
} function onResponse(){
if(xmlDoc.readyState!=4) return; 
var xmlstring=xmlDoc.responsetext;
xmlDOM.async=false;
xmlDOM.loadXML(xmlstring);
var file=xmlDOM.getElementsByTagName("pet");
for(i=0;i<=5;i++){
  if (i<file.length){
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=1;
       DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).text= file[i].getElementsByTagName("date")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;}
    else DesktopX.Object("choice"+i).visible=0;
 }
 }

Combining both XMLHTTP & XMLDOM does the trick!

for some reason in desktopx the XMLHTTP responseXML and the function load of XMLDOM aren't supported

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