"GMG" <nospam@nospam> wrote in message 
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> When explicitly setting the event onafterupdate, to a particular function,
> like so:
>
>    <input datafld="Brand_Code" type="text" size="10"  maxlength="10"
> onafterupdate="myFunction()" />
>
> the event remains intact after reloading the XML (
> xmldataisland.loadXML(...) ). myFunction() is fired after amending the
> Brand_Code value. BUT, if myFunction() is attached like so:
>
>    <input id="Brand_Code" datafld="Brand_Code" type="text" size="10"
> maxlength="10"  />
>
>    <script language="javascript">
>        Brand_Code.attachEvent( "onafterupdate", myFunction );
>    </script>
>
> The event is empty after reloading the XML and myFunction() is never 
> fired.
>
> My workaround is to reattach the events after each reload, but I have
> encountered what seems to be a timing issue which I have worked around 
> using
> setTimeout. It is all very ugly.
>
> Has anyone got a better solution ?
> I am only interested in solutions that dynamically will attach events once
> and for all no matter how many times I reload the XML. Or if you are a 
> Guru
> you may have an answer to get around the timing issue elegantly; note that
> the XML Data Island is synchronous (.async=false) and I have reattached on
> all the documented XML object events (ondataavailable, ondatasetchanged,
> ondatasetcomplete, onreadystatechange, onrowenter) without success; the 
> only
> thing that worked was to attach the event after half a second.
>
> P.S.: I am using IE 6.0 SP1 and will need to run on both IE6 and IE7
>
>
So I take it that you are unable to use the first method, the onafterupdate 
attribute?
Can you attach permanently via:
Brand_Code.onafterupdate = myFunction;
or does that disappear after firing once?


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