Javascript Error : Object Required

[Guest]

the title sums it up....

I'VE DONE
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searched the forum, didn't find anything to solve my problem and with google this seems to be a symptom for many problems, no luck there either.

there isn't really any component i can play with to troublshoot, it's syntax related.

MY SETUP:
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I'm using javascript and reading an XML document. using a for loop, i display all the nodes in the XML and print to the page.

MY PROBLEM:
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i get the following annoying error after page load:
Line: 239
Char: 5
Error: "Object Required"
Code: 0
URL: www.blah.com


i've pasted the related code.

line "239", the error is indicated.


novice web programmer, greatly appreciate any pointers, directions, tips, tricks, workarounds etc.

[Guest]

SIMPLIFIED QUESTION:
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in short, why is this illegal?

var titleArray = new Array();
for (var x = 0; x < 20; x++) {
//BELOW IS LINE 239, THE ERROR****************
titleArray = news.childNodes(x).firstChild.text;
}

because i commented out everything but those lines, and still got the same error.

[Newsgroup_User]

DanM. wrote:

> SIMPLIFIED QUESTION:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> in short, why is this illegal?
>
> var titleArray = new Array();
> for (var x = 0; x < 20; x++) {
> //BELOW IS LINE 239, THE ERROR****************
> titleArray = news.childNodes(x).firstChild.text;


var titleArray = new Array();
for (var x = 0; x < 20; x++) {
var TEXT;
if(TEXT=news.childNodes.item(x).firstChild.data){
if (TEXT.nodeType == 1){
titleArray.push(TEXT);
}
}

You may be grabbing white space or another <tag>, not text nodes. And
hard coding the loop max can be a problem too, unless you know there are
exactly 20.
for (var x = 0; x <news.childNodes.length ; x++)

Mick

> }
>
> because i commented out everything but those lines, and still got the same
> error.
>
>
>