[HTML_AJAX-devel] Append a chunk of XML to document

Joshua Eichorn josh at bluga.net
Mon Dec 11 08:49:26 PST 2006


Matt Tyson wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I've got an ajax response that's xml and what I want to do is actually just
> append the XML to the document with elem.appendChild(ajaxElem).  That seems
> to work, but the document isn't applying style classes that were set in the
> attributes of the ajaxElem.  
>
> I can use document.createElement/textNode and recurse through the xml data
> to make this work, but it just seems there should be a way to simply slap
> the xml onto the DOM (it ALMOST works already).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Matt
>   
I did something like this before for sure you need to use importNode 
instead of appendChild, but I don't remember if there was any other 
trick to it.
-josh


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