Iteration 2

Well i had a horrible time but i finally got my Xml pass through to work. It looks horrible but i can spend time later to gussy it up. I had great difficulty trying to follow the example the professor had set before us. It took several hours but i realized i was looking at the wrong example first. I had started with the finished model. Several pieces of code threw me in several directions.

function formatFeed(xml){
var html = "";
var thisEntry = xml.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("entry");

for (i=0; i
" + unescape(tagval(thisEntry.item(i), "content")) + "

";
}
}
return html;
}

The previous piece of code took me forever to decipher and i still have questions. From what i can tell its a loop that looks at the author you have chosen, selects them from the blog list and then displays their name and latest post.

This was throwing off any time of output i wanted on my screen and instead had to change the display function to the follwing:

function displayDetails() {
if (request.readyState == 4) {
if (request.status == 200) {
document.getElementById("content").innerHTML = request.responseXML;
}
}
}

This finally got the XML information to display unformatted on my page.