Re: XML in XHTML

interfaced@gmail.com wrote:

> I am trying to include and xml document inside my xhtml document.

This is somewhat tricky, especially given browser support issues.

> My problem is that javascript is understanding the nodes in my xml
> document as html elements.

Presumably you are serving your XHTML with a text/html content-type, in
which case its an HTML (or possibly a "random tag soup") document, not an
XHTML document (even if it has an XHTML doctype).

> <xml>
> <book>
> <title>Lord of the Rings</title>
> </book>
> </xml>

... and you don't appear to have specified a namespace anyway (which you
can't do if you serve the document with a text/html content type).

> If I parse this, the title element cannot be extracted and the page
> title(in the browser) becomes "Lord of the Rings".

Which is the browser trying to correct for your errors.

I suggest you include the data in JSON format instead. http://www.json.org/

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