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I'm trying to upload an XML file in the browser then parse the XML. On the uploaded file i can see the size correct, but it looks like have no data.
$('#xmlForm').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var selectedFile = document.getElementById('input').files[0];
var parser = new DOMParser();
var doc = parser.parseFromString( selectedFile, "text/xml");
console.log(doc);
});<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="xmlForm">
<input type="file" id="input">
<input type="submit">
</form>The parser basically says to me: "The document is empty"
What am i missing?
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The parser basically says to me: "The document is empty"
What am i missing
In this line you are passing the file to the parser.parseFromString method which is expecting a string containing the markup to parse and not a file.
var doc = parser.parseFromString( selectedFile, "text/xml");
By all means not a complete example, this code will read the contents of the file using a FileReader
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="xmlForm" name="xmlForm">
<input id="input" type="file"> <input type="submit">
</form>
<script>
var readXml=null;
$('#xmlForm').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var selectedFile = document.getElementById('input').files[0];
console.log(selectedFile);
var reader = new FileReader();
reader.onload = function(e) {
readXml=e.target.result;
console.log(readXml);
var parser = new DOMParser();
var doc = parser.parseFromString(readXml, "application/xml");
console.log(doc);
}
reader.readAsText(selectedFile);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
See this: How to read text file in JavaScript
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