I've read through the forum threads about AJAX, explored Captain-AT's how-to's, and played with various examples from this site and others, but I'm unable to make a certain step in my application. A third party at my domain provides a database lookup form webpage (i.e., the URL has a single ? parameter that they look in their database and take the database response and format it into a simple webpage. But I want to extract the actual data items from that page (each one is in its own <table><tr><td> element) in JS and format them my own way within my own page. I can get the HTML text in http_request.responseText (not .responseXML, since it's not XML). And I know how to parse through an XML document's nodes to get the values I want. But I can't figure out how to convert that HTML string into [something like] an XML document that I can parse. Any suggestions?
And yes, I have asked the other programmer for the original database response be made available to me with an XML response, but that might take awhile...
And yes, I have asked the other programmer for the original database response be made available to me with an XML response, but that might take awhile...