XML code in HTML not working in IE

[Fighterfox]

I'm not sure where the XML forum is, but maybe this will do. It's actually a combination of HTML, XML, and JavaScript. But anyway...

I am new XML, and need a little help getting it to work in IE—my code below already works in Firefox and Opera (I haven’t checked Chrome or Safari yet). For the following simple XML file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<location>
  <california>
    <cityname>Oakland</cityname>
    <description>Located east of San Francisco on San Francisco Bay</description>
  </california>
</location>

And for the following JavaScript parsing code:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET","test.xml",false);
xmlhttp.send();
xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML; 

document.write("<table border='1'>");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("california");
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  {
  document.write("<tr><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("cityname")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td><td>");
  document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("description")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
  document.write("</td></tr>");
  }
document.write("</table>");
</script>

How do I get my XML file to display in IE? Are there any basic inconsistencies or errors in my code that I have not noticed which is why IE fails to show what Firefox does? Thanks.

[traq]

you should ask a mod to move this to the javascript forum.

I don't know much about dealing with xml in javascript, but I would suspect this is a shortcoming of the browser. IE doesn't handle xml well at all. Do you have access to a server-side language like php? It would be simpler to parse the xml into html before it is output via ajax.

[ggalan]

have you tried jQuery?
http://papermashup.com/parse-xml-with-jquery/