Comments on: Is there a javascript function I can use to extract data from an xml document? http://www.learnxmlws.com/is-there-a-javascript-function-i-can-use-to-extract-data-from-an-xml-document/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: untitledskate http://www.learnxmlws.com/is-there-a-javascript-function-i-can-use-to-extract-data-from-an-xml-document/comment-page-1/#comment-265 untitledskate Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:30:55 +0000 http://www.learnxmlws.com/is-there-a-javascript-function-i-can-use-to-extract-data-from-an-xml-document/#comment-265 You've already mentioned AJAX, which essentially is the process of reading XML files from javascript. I have provided a beginners guide to AJAX which should answer your questions. As far as your PHP writing an XML file, you can just use: echo "<xml>"; ... etc to build your XML file. When you hit that php file you will just get XML returned. If you are just trying to get a variable from php -> javascript, without back and forth, you can just include a php line in your javascript, which will get proccessed when you hit the page: eg: //This is javascript var name = "<? echo "Some php variable"; ?>"; Hope this helps You’ve already mentioned AJAX, which essentially is the process of reading XML files from javascript. I have provided a beginners guide to AJAX which should answer your questions. As far as your PHP writing an XML file, you can just use: echo "<xml>"; … etc to build your XML file. When you hit that php file you will just get XML returned.

If you are just trying to get a variable from php -> javascript, without back and forth, you can just include a php line in your javascript, which will get proccessed when you hit the page:

eg:

//This is javascript
var name = "<? echo "Some php variable"; ?>";

Hope this helps

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