[JeremyC]

Hello, I am trying to get a small script to work in IE that is already working in other browsers. When the script runs it gives the following error

Quote

Expected token ')' found ':'.

dataroot/OrderQuery[not(CustomerName=preceding-sibling-->:<--:OrderQuery/CustomerName)]/CustomerName

I am guess that it has something to do with with the ActiveXObject but I'm not sure. I am trying to retrieve a list of unique customer names from the xml document.

Any ideas?

function loadXML(file) {
    "use strict";
    var xhttp;
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } else {
        xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    xhttp.open("GET", file, false);
    xhttp.send("");
    return xhttp.responseXML;
}

function getCustomers(xml)
{
	var path = "dataroot/OrderQuery[not(CustomerName=preceding-sibling::OrderQuery/CustomerName)]/CustomerName";
	var customers = new Array();
	if (window.ActiveXObject)
	{
		var nodes=xml.selectNodes(path);

		for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++)
		{
			customers[i] = nodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		}
	}
	// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
	else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
	{
		var nodes=xml.evaluate(path, xml, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
		var result=nodes.iterateNext();
		var i = 0;
		while (result)
		{
			customers[i] = result.childNodes[0].nodeValue;
			i++;
			result=nodes.iterateNext();
		}
	}
	return customers;
}

function getCustomerOrders(xml, customer)
{
	var path =  "dataroot/OrderQuery[CustomerName='" + customer + "']";
	var orders = new Array();
	if (window.ActiveXObject)
	{
		var nodes=xml.selectNodes(path);
		var children, i = 0, k = 0, currentOrder = new Array();

		for (i=0;i<nodes.length;i++)
		{
			children = nodes[i].childNodes;
			for (j = 0; j < children.length; j++)
			{
				if (children[j].nodeType == 1)
				{
					currentOrder[j] = children[j].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
				}
			}
		}
	}
	// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
	else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
	{
		var nodes=xml.evaluate(path, xml, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
		var result=nodes.iterateNext();
		var i = 0, k = 0, orders = new Array();
		var children;
		while (result)
		{
			children = result.childNodes;
			i = 0;
			var currentOrder = new Array();
			for (j = 0; j < children.length; j++)
			{	
				if (children[j].nodeType == 1)
				{
					currentOrder[i] = children[j].firstChild.nodeValue;
					i++;
				}
			}
			orders[k] = currentOrder;
			k++;
			result=nodes.iterateNext();
		}
	}
	return orders;
}

function init() {
	"use strict";
	var file = "xml/OrdersByCustomer.xml";
    
	//var path = "dataroot/OrderQuery[CustomerName='Abel & Young' and OrderID='1']/ProductName";
	var xml = loadXML(file);
	var customerList, i = 0, j = 0, output, orders = new Array();
	
	customerList = getCustomers(xml);
	customerList.sort();
	output = "<table><tr><td>Customer Name</td><td>Order ID</td><td>OrderDate</td><td>Product Name</td><td>Quantity</td></tr>";
	for (i = 0; i < customerList.length; i++)
	{
		output += "<tr><td>" + customerList[i] + "</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>"; // create first row 
		orders = getCustomerOrders(xml, customerList[i]);
		for (j = 0; j < orders.length; j++)
		{
			output += "<tr><td></td>"; // empty first cell
			output += "<td>" + orders[j][0] + "</td>"; // order id
			output += "<td>" + orders[j][1] + "</td>"; // order Date
			output += "<td>" + orders[j][3] + "</td>"; // product name
			output += "<td>" + orders[j][4] + "</td></tr>"; // order quantity, close row
		}
	}
	output += "</table>";
	var outputDiv = document.getElementById("output");
	outputDiv.innerHTML = output;
}