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Question

Problem with parsing XML

Hello,

i try to parse a XML-String but, that I receive via a HTTP-Client. No problems so far.

var ManifestXML = this.responseText;
var xml_as_dom = Titanium.XML.parseString(ManifestXML);

Then I try to get a node - works too

var my_items = xml_as_dom.getElementsByTagName("item");

with the length-attribute I can see, that 7 nodes are being returned, which is correct. But now I can not treat the returned variable as array.

The following line does not work

alert(my_items[0]); //returns 'undefined'

Has anybody a suggestion?

I use the mobile SDK 1.0.0 for iPhone

Thanks in advance,

Carsten

Answer 1

OK, found an answer…

The returned variable (my_items) is not an array but an object (type: TiDomNodeList)

You can access it by using

my_items.item(0); // 1,2,3,4,5,.....

Answer 2

On shortcut, just use the property this.responseXML to get the DOMDocument directly.