Spry:content just print some content

Question

I have a javascript function text(CODE) that returns text from an xml file. This works, I can do alert(text("HELLO")); and it will return "Hello World".
All I want to do is this:
<h1 spry:content="text('HELLO')"></h1>
but I get nothing, no value in the H1 tag. If I do this
<h1 spry:content="text('HELLO')">This should go away</h1>
The "This should go away" text never goes away
Spry IS working, I have a fade effect going on, I have called the data functions. But I cannot get this to work. All I'm trying to do is replace text in a tag without having to do getElementById("blah") or having to register id's on all my content.
Any help would be awsome

Answer 1

gcatcher wrote:
Now, if I can't do this, my question is WHAT SHOULD I do?
I've got a function that returns text, I want to have that text show up all over the website, I don't want to give every element an id and reference the id... this is not a table or database. This is text content like "Enter your username and password" above a form. Or error messages. Or anything really
I am confused. If you already have the function that returns text, why would you use Spry?
Spry can be used to retrieve data from an XML file (non-relational database) and can be used to place that information within your document.
It would however be advantageous to show us your code (preferably via an online URL) so that we can see what you are talking about.
Ben