CS3 javascript XML and attribute adding.

I've been trying to get something working in CS3 javascript XML for some time and it is getting really frustrating.
Say I have:
var someXML = new XML("<anElement/>");
someXML.@xxx = "something";
$.writeln(someXML.toXMLString());
gives the output I'd expect (<anElement xxx="something"/>);
But I need the name of the attribute to be dynamic. As far as I can see I should be able to either:
someXML.getAttribute("xxx") = "something";
or
someXML.@["xxx"] = "something";
both these cases give an error of 'Cannot set property xxx'. I'm using CS3 version 5.0.4 (the debug build because most of the time I'm working directly with the API - not through scripting).
I looking for ideas to try...
Ian

Hi Ole, thanks for the reply.
I am aiming to manipulate XML using standard javascript functions - nothing directly to do with indesign, though other parts of the script does interact with it. Basically the scripts allow a user to set some configuration options and that is in an XML string format (if it was the indesign XML Hierarchy XMLElements, etc I'm pretty sure I could get things to work - worst case I could add to the scripting support in a plugin and make it work...).
I had an idea (driving home after a frustrating day), Since the XML I'm processing is small, I can move forward by crudely making a string from the XML object, inserting the attribute into the string and then re-new'ing the XML object. With large comments about why - unless someone can come up with a reason/fix for the javascript-XML not working (I suppose it may just be the number of InDesign/Extendscript versions I have installed - CS2/CS3/CS4, indesign and server).
Ian

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Hey
I have a HTML which has Javascript scripts which I have to get values from (a array to be exact) and pass them to a servlet so I can process the information in a certain way. I cant seem to find a way to do this properly as the servlet is server side and Javascript is client side. How can I implement this?
Using a quick example example I have
C:/index.html
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<html>
<head>
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</head>
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(Ignore syntaxis errors as this is a quick example I wrote up just to see if you can give me a practical example on how to read it.)
How can from a Java servlet access a and b from the script.js file (which contains a class named Script) and also access the function add which returns that value?
Thank you for the help
Edited by: 902756 on 16-dic-2011 0:18

DrClap wrote:
902756 wrote:
1: Yes, it seems like the logically answer but Im not too up on AJAX and even less on mixing it up with servlets. Do you mind giving me a simple add (function) sample or something similar?You are looking at it the wrong way. What you actually want to do is to have the browser send a request (which somehow contains that Javascript data) to a URL which causes the servlet to receive the data. There's no "mixing it up" going on there. The client and the server are entirely separate.
And since that request would be an HTTP request, it's just text. There's no concept in HTTP of transmitting objects, whether they be Javascript objects or Java objects. Anything you want to transmit has to be converted into text by the sender and converted back into objects by the receiver.
So there's no such thing as "a simple add function". You're going to have to stop thinking in that way and start thinking of client-server systems in the way they actually are.The thing is I want to start simple to grab a simple concept....
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<html>
<head>
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Do
<span id="res"></span>
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I cannot hard code the DTD def. as it can vary from one XML to another. Using doc.getDocType() I can get the doctype of the original XML. But is it is not returning the complete def. including entities declaration. Its giving me "someurl/TFJA.dtd".
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Hi,
I also had similar requirement and when searching i came across this post. Later i found the solution for this. Instead of hardcoding the doctype you can get it from Document as follows..Snippet from the code i used..
DocumentType doctype = document.getDoctype();
if(doctype != null) {
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                    return;
               transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_SYSTEM, id);
               id = doctype.getPublicId();
               if(id == null || id.length() == 0)
                    return;
               transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.DOCTYPE_PUBLIC, id);
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Regards,
Deepak

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