[GRLUG] trouble extracting from XML (Ajax)

[Eric Beversluis]

Thanks, Ben. That would be a good idea if I were willing to join Google
Groups.
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 07:42 -0500, Ben Rousch wrote:
> <shameless_plug>
> I'm not suggesting that this is the wrong place to post, but you might
> find more help on the Grand Rapids Web Development group.
> http://groups.google.com/group/grwebdev
> 
> Also feel free to join the group at our Meetup.com site
> http://www.meetup.com/grwebdev/
> </shameless_plug>
> 
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Eric Beversluis
> <ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> > Hi. Is there anyone out there who can make sense of JavaScript?
> >
> > I'm trying to do some AJAX and having trouble getting some of the fields
> > out of the responseXML.
> >
> > Is there some Javascript gotcha that I don't know about that explains
> > why the first line below works fine, but I keep getting nothing from my
> > XML with the second line?
> >
> >
> >   repParty[i] = Reps[i].getAttribute("party");
> >   repCongrID[i] = Reps[i].getAttribute("govtrack_id");
> >
> > I don't seem to be able to retrieve data from any of the tagnames that
> > have underscores. I've also tried with 'fec_id' and 'in_office'. I tried
> > escaping the underscore, replacing it with a space, eliminating it all
> > together...
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > Here's a bit of the xml as it came to my phpproxy:
> > <pre>
> > -
> > <response>
> > -
> > <legislators>
> > -
> > <legislator>
> > <website>http://fudge.house.gov/</website>
> > <fax>202-225-1339</fax>
> > <govtrack_id>412327</govtrack_id>
> > <firstname>Marcia</firstname>
> > <chamber>house</chamber>
> > <middlename>L.</middlename>
> > <lastname>Fudge</lastname>
> > <congress_office>1513 Longworth House Office Building</congress_office>
> > <eventful_id/>
> > <phone>202-225-7032</phone>
> > <webform>https://forms.house.gov/fudge/contact-form.shtml</webform>
> > <youtube_url>http://www.youtube.com/marcialfudge</youtube_url>
> > <nickname/>
> > <gender>F</gender>
> > <district>11</district>
> > <title>Rep</title>
> > <congresspedia_url>http://www.opencongress.org/wiki/Marcia_Fudge</congresspedia_url>
> > <in_office>True</in_office>
> > <senate_class/>
> > <name_suffix/>
> > <twitter_id>marciafudge</twitter_id>
> > <birthdate>1952-10-29</birthdate>
> > <bioguide_id>F000455</bioguide_id>
> > <fec_id>H8OH11141</fec_id>
> > <state>OH</state>
> > <crp_id>N00030490</crp_id>
> > <official_rss/>
> > <facebook_id>RepMarciaLFudge</facebook_id>
> > <party>D</party>
> > <email/>
> > <votesmart_id>110640</votesmart_id>
> > </legislator>
> > -
> > <legislator>
> > <website>http://
> >
> >
> >
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> 
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>   Ben Rousch
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