Processing XML
XML is so popular that web browsers have built-in mechanisms for dealing with XML documents. In fact, all of the methods used to process the DOM (discussed in Chapter 13) can also be used to process XML documents.
The script in Figure 15-6 shows how to use some of the methods that we used to process the DOM to create an application that looks up a word in three dictionary files (German, Portuguese, and Italian), which I downloaded from the Internet Dictionary Project (http://www.ilovelanguages.com/IDP).
Figure 15-6. Reading an XML document
As you can see in Figure 15-7, entering aardvark into the text box and clicking the Translate! ...
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