Re: Assemble XML based on row data in a HTML table

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

JavaScript is fun!


On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Initiated by a question in the EASY400 group I used a couple of hours to
> construct an example on how to extract data from a HTML table into a
> XML object for use in AJAX calls.
>
> It consists of two generic javascript functions that transforms a table
> body
> to an XML document and a simple javascript function that eliminates the
> XML data that doesn't have to be send to the server.
>
> It walks through a table body and creates an XML document based on the
> exsistance of an 'xmlelement' attribute in the td's. The td's can either be
> displayable, hidden or input.
>
> Afterwards it is possible to process the constructed XML document and
> eliminate the rows that hasn't to be send to the server.
>
> I use it myself to extract multiple selected rows without having to
> construct
> a big form with a lot of multiple occurencies.
>
> I hereby share the code that are quite simple to use ...
>
> http://powerext.com/htmltoxml.html
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Henrik Rützou
>
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