Best Picks Revisited

shalesh · October 28th, 2006, 12:44 PM

I downloaded the chapter 4 example "Best Picks Revisited" from book Professional Ajax. As specified in the book i created a directory with name booklists in wwwroot folder on my machine which has iis as web server. Now when i run url "http://localhost/booklists/book.htm" in IE version 6 or mozilla firefox version 1.5, i get the error message "your browser doesn't support an XML HTTP Request." It is very frustrating for me as none of the examples from chapter 4 is working on my machine.

Please guide me what exactly is the issue and how that issue can be resolved. An early replay in this regard would be most appreciated.

Regards
Shalesh

jmcpeak · October 29th, 2006, 01:31 PM

Shalesh,

Try downloading a newer version of zXml (current version is 1.0.2) from http://www.nczonline.net/downloads/.

------------------------
Jeremy McPeak
Author, Professional Ajax
http://www.wdonline.com

shalesh · November 1st, 2006, 07:16 AM

Thanks for the reply. I downloaded the latest zxml.js from the location you specified. The example is running fine in both IE and mozilla. I am facing problem if i am implementing the example in another xslt file which is getting transformed on server side and the xslt code is given below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Ajax Exercise</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/zapak/js/zxml.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    <![CDATA[
        function init(sFilename) {
            var oReq = zXmlHttp.createRequest();
            oReq.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (oReq.readyState == 4) {
                    if (oReq.status == 200) {
                        transformXml(oReq.responseText);
                    }
                }
            };
            oReq.open("GET", sFilename, true);
            oReq.send();
        }

        function transformXml(sResponseText) {
            var oXmlDom = zXmlDom.createDocument();
            oXmlDom.async = false;
            oXmlDom.loadXML(sResponseText);
            var oXslDom = zXmlDom.createDocument();
            oXslDom.async = false;
            oXslDom.load("/xslshow.z?path=/testplayani");
            var str = zXslt.transformToText(oXmlDom,oXslDom);
            document.getElementById("divBookList").innerHTML = str;
        }
      ]]>
    </script>
</head>
<body onload="init('/topbarxml.z')">
    <div id="divBookList"></div>
</body>
</html>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

It is working fine in IE but it doesn't work in mozilla firefox version 1.5.0.7 . i get following errors in java script console....

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Location.toString

Error: event.target.rel has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/bindings/tabbrowser.xml
Line: 791

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Not enough arguments [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]" nsresult: "0x80570001 (NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS)" location: "JS frame :: http://test2.zapak.com/zapak/js/book.htm :: init :: line 59" data: no]

please help.

shalesh · November 1st, 2006, 09:45 AM

Sorry there was a mistake in my above message ...The sample code doesn't work in mozilla firefox version 1.5.0.7. it gives following error

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Not enough arguments [nsIXMLHttpRequest.send]" nsresult: "0x80570001 (NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS)" location: "JS frame :: http://localhost/booklists/book.htm :: init :: line 19" data: no]

Regards
Shalesh

joefawcett · November 1st, 2006, 10:12 AM

Mozilla's XMLHttpRequest needs an argument passed to the send method, even if it's an empty string or null. I thought that had been added to the zXml library but obviously not.
Try changing

Code:

oReq.send();

to

Code:

oReq.send("");

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

jmcpeak · November 1st, 2006, 12:24 PM

This is my fault. Code in the text, or in the examples, omitted the vital argument to the send() method.

Since you're doing a GET request, you should pass null to the send() method.

Code:

oReq.send(null);

That'll fix up the NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS error.

------------------------
Jeremy McPeak
Author, Professional Ajax
http://www.wdonline.com

shalesh · November 3rd, 2006, 10:40 AM

Dear Jeremy,

Thanks for the help. I have a question which is related to doing multiple xml and xsl transformation using the function you have provided in the book "Professional Ajax" For example in my html page i use following piece of code...

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="zxml.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function init(sFilename) {
            var oReq = zXmlHttp.createRequest();
            oReq.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (oReq.readyState == 4) {
                    // only if "OK"
                    if (oReq.status == 200) {
                        transformXml(oReq.responseText);
                    }
                }
            };
            oReq.open("GET", sFilename, true);
            oReq.send();
        }

        function transformXml(sResponseText) {
            var oXmlDom = zXmlDom.createDocument();
            oXmlDom.async = false;
            oXmlDom.loadXML(sResponseText);

            var oXslDom = zXmlDom.createDocument();
            oXslDom.async = false;
            oXslDom.load("books.xsl");

            var str = zXslt.transformToText(oXmlDom,oXslDom);
            document.getElementById("divBookList").innerHTML = str;
        }

       </script>
</head>
<body onload="init('thisweekbooks.xml')">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div id="divBookList"></div>
</td>
<td>
    <div id="otherlist"></div>
<script language="javascript">
init('thisweekbooks.xml');
</script>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

In mozilla i get the following error....

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to call method Location.toString

(1) if i need to transform more than 1 xml using same xslt, how do i do it?
(2) if i need to transform more than 2 xml and each xml uses different xslt, how do i do it?

please help....

shalesh