[GRLUG] trouble extracting from XML (Ajax)

[Eric Beversluis]

Thanks. I tried that and it seemed to subscribe me. I hope that doesn't
mean I agreed to everything in the Google account terms. I don't like
any such terms that take me 10+ minutes to read and understand.

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 08:30 -0500, Dave Brondsema wrote:
> Oops - sorry for the double suggestion.
> 
> Eric, do you have a problem with joining a Google Group?  You don't need
> gmail - you can have a Google Account with any email address.  Moreover,
> I think you can just send an email to
> grwebdev+subscribe at googlegroups.com and not even need to set up a Google
> Account at all.
> 
> On 02/04/2011 08:12 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>   Ben Rousch
> >>   brousch at gmail.com
> >>   http://ishmilok.blogspot.com/
> >>
> > 
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