无法在FF或IE中加载XML，但可以在Chrome中运行

Question

Please take a look at the following link: http://www.nba.com/warriors/audiotrack_test_000005.html?mark-jackson-on-the-dan

This works properly (meaning it appends the audio track onto the page) in Chrome but fails at different points in Internet Explorer and Firefox.

In IE it fails at the line:

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("http://api.soundcloud.com/users/goldenstatewarriors/tracks?client_id=02db8e29aa2fb5bf590f478b73137c67");

In FF it fails at the line below that:

x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("track");

I've never had a cross-browser XML loading problem like this before, but this is the first time I am loading XML from a server other than my own.

Any solutions available? SoundCloud also offers JSON but I have not worked with that much...

Answer 1

I've looked at it in Firefox and firebug shows that the response from api.soundcloud is returned as

content-type: text/html.

The XMLHttpRequest in your loadXMLDoc gets the reponse in the responseText property and not the responseXML.

Looking on the soundcloud website (never used it myself) you can specify the required format by changing your call to

xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("http://api.soundcloud.com/users/goldenstatewarriors/tracks?client_id=02db8e29aa2fb5bf590f478b73137c67&format=xml");

adding the

&format=xml

to the call made it work for me in firefox at least.