Ajax with xml file

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Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content. While using W3Schools, you agree to have read and accepted our terms of use , cookie and privacy policy. Copyright by Refsnes Data. Using setTimeout method of jQuery: setTimeout takes two parameters, first one being the function names to be called and the second one being the time interval after which those functions has to be called.

This makes sure, whenever the XML file gets updated, our application fetches the data and displays on our webpage, without refreshing the page. Make sure to call both corporateData and fetch method once the page loads. This makes sure the XML data is fetched before fetch functions tries to re-fetch the things. Note: Make sure you open the html file from a server even from localhost , and not directly from a folder. Testing The Application To test this small application, open the index.

Once you save the XML file, the content of XML file must get updated on the html file immediately without the page index. One small comment. Nice Tut. I have implemented it in a script but I notice that after a few seconds it seems to time out.

I will make changes to my xml file but they will not post until I refresh. Any thoughts? Got it. This is working fine. I feel like it is something to do with the setTimeout function freaking out the DOM.