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Ajax for XML editing?

Oct 21st, 2008

Hello! I'm new to Ajax (coming from PHP world), and I've been able to find plenty of examples of Ajax being used to display data from XML on a web page, but I haven't found many examples of Ajax being used to update/edit the content or structure of an XML file through the web page front-end. Is there a reason this doesn't seem to be commonly done?

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Re: Ajax for XML editing?

Oct 21st, 2008

I wouldn't think so. This should be fairly easy for a competent programmer.

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Re: Ajax for XML editing?

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> I've been able to find plenty of examples of Ajax being used to display data from XML on
> a web page

XML when served by the server when making asynchronous requests is purely for the sake of easy data manipulation given that a XML response can be easily inspected/worked upon using the DOM API.

> but I haven't found many examples of Ajax being used to update/edit the content or
> structure of an XML file through the web page front-end

You can, but there doesn't seem to be any real need to do so.

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