Importing XML text

Hi,

what you’ll need is a XMLHttpRequest

var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', '${resourcesFolderName}/text.xml', true);

request.onload = function() {
  if (request.status >= 200 && request.status < 400) {
    var yourXML = request.responseXML;
    //--> read textContent of your headlinetag
   console.log( yourXML.getElementsByTagName('headline')[0].textContent)
  } else {
    // error occured, do sthg.

  }
};

request.onerror = function() {
  // connection error, do sthg.
};

request.send();

fyi by default the request is async. if you want to avoid this set the last argument of the request to false

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