Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript Example 19-2

LPMJ Example 19-2

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<html><head><title>YUI XML Example</title>
</head><body>
<h2>Loading XML content into a DIV with YUI</h2>
<div id='info'>This sentence will be replaced</div>
<script src="yahoo-min.js"></script> 
<script src="event-min.js"></script> 
<script src="connection-min.js"></script> 
<script>
url = encodeURI("xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=20500")
callback = { success:successHandler, failure:failureHandler }
request = YAHOO.util.Connect.asyncRequest('GET',
	'xmlget.php?url=' + url, callback)

function successHandler(o) {
	root = o.responseXML.documentElement;
	title = root.getElementsByTagName('description')[0].
		firstChild.nodeValue
	date = root.getElementsByTagName('lastBuildDate')[0].
		firstChild.nodeValue
	text = root.getElementsByTagName('description')[1].
		firstChild.nodeValue

	document.getElementById('info').innerHTML =
		title + "<br />" + date + "<br />" + text
}

function failureHandler(o) { 
	document.getElementById('info').innerHTML =
		o.status + " " + o.statusText
} 
</script></body></html>