Ask YC: Ajax Basics Help

2 pointsby JimEngland18 anni fa2 comments

I am currently learning the basics of Ajax and going through tutorials. Right now, I'm learning how to build a simple RSS feed reader. All of the examples I have seen so far, however, use getElementByTagName() to go through the XML document by hard coding in each of the tag's names. This doesn't seem right to me, though; shouldn't I just be able to use the JavaScript DOM instead and write a script that would work regardless of XML input?

Here is the example I am working with: http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax/tryit.asp?filename=tryajax_httprequest_js4

Any help would be appreciated.

2 comments

Hates_18 anni fa

Have you looked into using jQuery for your AJAX and XML parsing?

JimEngland18 anni fa

I'm definitely going to be using jQuery or another JavaScript library in the future. However, I'd first like to understand how to do regular JavaScript XML parsing by hand.