Problem with selectSingleNode and IE5

[belwig]

Hi all,

I'm having an issue with the following XML Data Island/Javascript code. It works fine in IE6 but generates an error (object required) when tried in IE5 or IE5.5.

Here is the data island (greatly reduced)

<XML ID='xmlStationAirlines'>
<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?>
<stations>
<station desc=&quot;Albany&quot; id=&quot;E09&quot;>
<airline adesc=&quot;Air Georgian&quot; aid=&quot;GGN&quot;/>
</station>
</stations>
</XML>

Here is the (simplified) javascript, which is called via the onchange event for a dropdown.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function getAirlines()
{
var xmlBlock = document.getElementById(&quot;xmlStationAirlines&quot;
var xmlDoc = xmlBlock.XMLDocument;

var node = &quot;/*/station[@id=\&quot;&quot; + selStationId + &quot;\&quot;]&quot;

var selNode = xmlDoc.selectSingleNode( node );

alert(selNode.nodeName);
}
</SCRIPT>

The error occurs on the alert line.

Thanks!

 

[belwig]

And just to clarify, the line

var node = &quot;/*/station[@id=\&quot;&quot; + selStationId + &quot;\&quot;]&quot;

should have a &quot;;&quot; at the end. This isn't the problem, though.

 

[timcam01]

On the IE 5.0/5.5 system, did you install msxml 4? IE 6.0 comes with the current msxml. for others, you'll have to install it yourself from microsoft.

 

[belwig]

Thanks for the response. I've not done this, but everything I've read indicates that the code should work on IE5. I'm not using anything that I know of that is specific to MSXML 4. Is there a way to alter the code so avoid having to upgrade?