Steve wrote:
> I am new to XML but have managed to parse most of the XML files I have
> come across within my javascript scripts. Until now. I am trying to
> parse the currency file available free from http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml
> The file looks like this:
> 
> <gesmes:Envelope>

Actually it doesn't. It starts like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gesmes:Envelope xmlns:gesmes="http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01" 
xmlns="http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref">
	<gesmes:subject>Reference rates</gesmes:subject>

The root element shows the namespaces, so that you can instruct your 
processor that gesmes equates to "http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01" 
and that the default namespace (used for all element types that do not 
have a prefix) is "http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref"

///Peter

> <gesmes:subject>Reference rates</gesmes:subject>
> <gesmes:Sender>
> <gesmes:name>European Central Bank</gesmes:name>
> </gesmes:Sender>
> <Cube>
> <Cube time="2008-09-19">
> <Cube currency="USD" rate="1.4236"/>
> <Cube currency="JPY" rate="153.03"/>
> .......
> <Cube currency="THB" rate="48.630"/>
> <Cube currency="ZAR" rate="11.4902"/>
> </Cube>
> </Cube>
> </gesmes:Envelope>
> 
> I can parse the gesmes:subject and gesmes:name but I have no idea how
> to parse the <Cube> data, which is of course what I want. I have
> Googled around and this leads me to believe that this is a namespace
> issue but I cannot find out how to parse this within Javacript or if
> necessary PHP
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, Steve.