Parsing XML in Mozilla Browser

Mozilla is the de-facto browser that ships with most Linux distributions, including PCQLinux 2004. It incorporates many Web technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Liveconnect (Java and JavaScript communication), Flash and XML. Talking about XML (one of the numerous uses of this language is to structure content on the Web). While at the least, Mozilla can open a plain vanilla XML document and render it in a tree-like structure (similar to IE), italso supports parsing of the XML data residing in a file using JavaScript. The parsed data can be displayed as HTML-a common use.

This article explains the basics of how to parse or read XML data in Mozilla Web browser using Javascript. It also explains, through simple code examples, how to search through an XML file containing employee data.

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