Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I've got some setting somewhere that must be missing because I just can't get an xml file to load via JavaScript - I'm using the Spring & Tiles framework - I've tried all sorts of tips and techniques but my document object is always null - below is the simplest example I could find that should work but doesn't - I've tried changing the xml location from "music.xml" to just about everywhere on the server, but always get the same results

example xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1" ?>
<NewDataSet>
    <CD>
        <Name>Music</Name>
    </CD>
    <CD>
        <Name>Politics</Name>
    </CD>
    <CD>
        <Name>Shopping</Name>
    </CD>
</NewDataSet>

jsp tile:

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
/* <![CDATA[ */
var xmlDoc;
var genrename;
window.onload=loadXmlDoc;

function loadXmlDoc()
{    
	  if (window.ActiveXObject)
	    {
	        xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
	        xmlDoc.async=false;
	        xmlDoc.load("music.xml");
	        LoadOptions();    
	    }
	    else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)    
	    {
	        xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
	        xmlDoc.onload = LoadOptions();
	        xmlDoc.load("music.xml");
	    }
}

function LoadOptions()
{
  genrename = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("Name");
  for (var i=0; i<genrename.length; i++)
  {
      document.forms['genreform'].genre.options[i] = new Option(genrename.firstChild.nodeValue,genrename[i].firstChild.nodeValue);

}

}



/* ]]> */

--></script>



<form name="genreform">

<select name="genre" >

<option value="Test"> Testing</Option>

</select>

</form>

<div id = "box" style= "background:yellow;width:320px;padding:5px"> </div>
Edited by: GrandVizier on Oct 7, 2008 3:48 PM

for what its worth - the only error message I get is: 'xmlDoc is undefined'

and when I place
alert(xmlDoc.documentElement);
in various places in the code I just get 'null'

I set up
<img src="images/delete.png" />
and changed it to
xmlDoc.load("images/music.xml");
which shows my image but still doesn't load the xml

I'm using Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 if that helps track this down