source: other-projects/tipple-android/i-greenstone-server-files/greenstone/webapps/greenstone3/gs_ajax_utils.js@ 26917

/*
function loadAsync(sUri, SOAPMessage) {
    var xmlHttp = XmlHttp.create();
    xmlHttp.open("POST", sUri, true);
    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
        if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4){
            getTitle2(xmlHttp.responseXML, xmlHttp.responseText);
        }     
    }
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", " ");
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8");

    xmlHttp.send(SOAPMessage);
}
*/

function messageToSOAP(message) {
    return ['<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>', 
        '<soapenv:Envelope ',
        'xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"',
        'xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"',
        'xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">',
            '<soapenv:Body>', 
                message, 
            '</soapenv:Body>',
        '</soapenv:Envelope>'].join("");
}

function getText(element) { //get the text from possibly multiple text nodes
    if (element.hasChildNodes()) {
        var tempString = [];
        for (var j = 0; j < element.childNodes.length; j++) {
            if (element.childNodes[j].nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE ) { // =2
                tempString.push(element.childNodes[j].nodeValue);
            } 
            else {
                tempString.push('non text node: ');
            }
        } 
        return tempString.join("");
    }
    else {
        return 'getText: element has no ChildNodes from which to extract Text';
    }
}

function newOpenTag(name) {
    return ['<', name, '>'].join("");
}

function newCloseTag(name) {
    return ['</', name, '>'].join("");
}

function newEmptyTag(name) {
    return ['<', name, '/>'].join("");
}

function newElement(name, content) {
    return ['<', name, '>', content, '</', name, '>'].join("");
}

function newElementAtt1(name, content, attName, attValue) {
    return ['<', name, ' ', attName, '="', attValue, '">', content, '</', name, '>'].join("");
}

function newElementAtt(name, content, nameArray, valueArray) {
    var e = ['<', name, ' '];
    for (i=0; i < nameArray.length; i++) {
        e.push(newAttribute(nameArray[i], valueArray[i]));
    }
    e.push(['>', content, '</', name, '>']);
    return e.join("");
}

function newAttribute(name, value) {
    return [' ', name, '="', value, '"'].join("");
}

function countElementChildren(node) {
    var count = 0;
    var childList = node.childNodes;
    for(var i=0; i < (childList.length); i++) {
        var childNode = childList.item(i);
        if ((childNode.nodeType == 1))  { // only count elements
            count++;
        }
    }
    return count;
}

function removeAllChildren(node) {
    while (node.hasChildNodes()) {
        node.removeChild(node.firstChild);
    }
}

function isElement(node) {
    if (node.nodeType == 1) {
        return true; }
    else {
        return false;
    }
}