Hi,

I am trying to adapt a piece of code I found on the internet as part of a tutorial to transform an xml into a javascript object but am struggling to get it to read attributes as well.

Currently, it only reads node values but I would like it to read attribute values as well and add the attribute values to the object.

That is how I call the function below. I pass an empty object and an xml node

var ret = new Object();

var xmlElem = 'This is an xml document that looks like this:'

<AnchorDate>
<Month value="2">Month</Month>
<Year value="2007">Year</Year>
</AnchorDate>

res = setPropertiesRecursive(ret, xmlElem)

Then I can use the object like this:

res[i].Month
res[i].Year

But I need to have access to the attribute values as well like this:

res[i].Month.value
res[i].Year.value

I would appreciate very much if someone could help me to find a solution.

Cheers

C

function setPropertiesRecursive(obj, node) { if (node.childNodes.length > 0) { for (var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++) { if (node.childNodes[i].nodeType == 1 && node.childNodes[i].firstChild) { // If node has only one child // set the obj property to the value of the node if (node.childNodes[i].childNodes.length == 1) { obj[node.childNodes[i].tagName] = node.childNodes[i].firstChild.nodeValue; } // Otherwise this obj property is an array // Recurse to set its multiple properties else { obj[node.childNodes[i].tagName] = []; // Call recursively -- rinse and repeat // ============== setPropertiesRecursive( obj[node.childNodes[i].tagName], node.childNodes[i]); } } } }}

Sorry, here is a more readable version of the function that got messed up in my last post.