Hi guys,
I have a xml file that contains all the articles with few authors for each of them.
something like this;
<authors>
<author>
<surname>Middleton</surname>
<firstname>Karen L.</firstname>
</author>
<author>
<surname>Chambers</surname>
<firstname>Valrie</firstname>
</author>
</authors>
I can display them in HTML well the problem is, the way I want to display is if authors more than 1 then there will be 'and' that show which is the last author, something like BIBLIOGRAPHY structure;
ex: MiddleTon, Karen L. and Valrie, Chambers ...
so I have js file that go into the xml file and display them. So far I can display each of them but not in the structure I want it.
This is my js code;
function displayClasses(doc) {
var journalNode = doc.getElementsByTagName('journals')[0];
for (i=0; i<journalNode.childNodes.length; i++) {
var journal = journalNode.childNodes[i];
if (journal.tagName == 'journal')
{
var text = '';
var authorNode = journal.getElementsByTagName('author');
if (authorNode.length > 1) {
for(ctr=0;ctr<authorNode.length;ctr++) {
var author = authorNode[ctr];
var firstNameNode = author.getElementsByTagName('firstname')[0];
var firstName = firstNameNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
var surname = author.getElementsByTagName('surname')
var surnameValue = surname[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
var surname2 = surname[0].lastChild.nodeValue;
var myEl = document.createElement('p');
myEl.innerHTML = text
}
text += surnameValue + ', ' + firstName + ' and ' + surname2 + '<br />';
}
}
}
Can anyone point me a right direction to solve this?
I am a noob in AJAX
Thanks in advanced