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I have a piece of javascript code that loads an XML, parses it and displays the result in a DIV element. This works perfectly in FF but in IE I'm getting the above error. The backend PHP has the following header:

header('Content-Type: text/xml');
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
echo "<?xml version='1.0'?>";

A sample of the XML:

<response>
<pages>1</pages>
<current>0</current>
<comment>
<date>2008-07-15</date>
<text>Test comment 1</text>
<poster>mesh2005</poster>
<link>http://www.yahoo.com</link>
</comment>
</response>

I added a Javascript alert statement to print the responseText and I can see the whole XML file is displayed correctly.

Please advice.

Thank you

Amir

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        ServerName frame
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        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /home/username/Personal/framework>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
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        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
        LogLevel warn
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
        ServerSignature On
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It fails and I get no such file or directory although the header.php is in the root of the virtual host. It seems that the / is not mapped to /home/username/Personal/framework, how can I fix this?

Thank you

AM

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{
var divs =document.getElementsByTagName('div');
var links = Array();
var i = 0;
for(var x=0; x<divs.length; x++)
{
	if (divs[x].className == 'external-links')
	{
		links = divs[x].getElementsByTagName('a');  
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	}
}
}

 

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