pulling XML data from external site

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I'm trying to figure out how to pull data from an XML file that isn't hosted on my own site. I'm completely new to this so I have no idea where I'm going wrong. I can pull that data from my own site easy. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

<script type="text/javascript">
  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
     xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
  else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
      xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }

  url = "http://elcu.herobo.com/testarea/include/cd_catalog.xml"
  xmlhttp.open("GET",url,false);
  xmlhttp.send();
  xmlDoc=xmlhttp.responseXML;

  document.write("<table border='0' cellpadding='1' cellspacing='1' width'90%' id='1' class='tablesorter'><thead><tr> <th>Artist</th> <th>Title</th> <th>Country</th></thead><tbody>");

  var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("CD");
  for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
  {
      document.write("<tr><td>");
      document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("ARTIST")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
      document.write("</td><td>");
      document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
      document.write("</td><td>");
      document.write(x[i].getElementsByTagName("COUNTRY")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
      document.write("</td></tr>");
  }
  document.write("</tbody></table>");

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '12 at 18:14

For security reasons you are, by default, not allowed to do cross-domain requests to get XML data (same-origin policy). If you want to get data across domains, you usually need to use JSON-P as your format, or setup a proxy within your own domain that you can access the data through.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '12 at 18:35

I thought I'd never write this, but, "You might consider using jQuery for this." It provides all the sauce for the different browsers and also support for JSON-P that you'll need for CORS, unless you can get the server to start returning CORS headers to permit your access.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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If you have access to page, that isn't hosted on your server (I suppose you don't), you can use JSONP (for more details, see this answer), otherwise you should use PROXY (see this answer).

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Feb 12 '12 at 18:41

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