有问题的html 与 xml

<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd" >
< html  xmlns ="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"   >
< head >
     < title > Parsing XML Responses with the W3C DOM </ title >
< script  type ="text/javascript" >
var  xmlHttp;
var  requestType  =   "" ;

function  createXMLHttpRequest() {
     if  (window.ActiveXObject) {
        xmlHttp  =   new  ActiveXObject( " Microsoft.XMLHTTP " );
    } 
     else   if  (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        xmlHttp  =   new  XMLHttpRequest();
    }
}
    
function  startRequest(requestedList) {
    requestType  =  requestedList;
    
    createXMLHttpRequest();
    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange  =  handleStateChange;
    xmlHttp.open( " GET " ,  " parseXML.xml " ,  true );
    xmlHttp.send( null );
}
    
function  handleStateChange() {

     if (xmlHttp.readyState  ==   4 ) {
  
         if (xmlHttp.status  ==   0 ) {
        
             if (requestType  ==   " north " ) {
                listNorthStates();
            }
             else   if (requestType  ==   " all " ) {
                listAllStates();
            }
        }
    }
}
 
function  listNorthStates() {
     var  xmlDoc  =  xmlHttp.responseXML;
      
     var  northNode  =  xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName( " north " )[ 0 ];
    
     var  out  =   " Northern States " ;
     var  northStates  =  northNode.getElementsByTagName( " state " );
    
    outputList( " Northern States " , northStates);
}

function  listAllStates() {
     var  xmlDoc  =  xmlHttp.responseXml;
    
     var  allStates  =  xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName( " state " );
    
    outputList( " All States in Document " , allStates);
}

function  outputList(title, states) {
     var  out  =  title;
     var  currentState  =   null ;
     for ( var  i  =   0 ; i  <  states.length; i ++ ) {
        currentState  =  states[i];
        out  =  out  +   " -  "   +  currentState.childNodes[ 0 ].nodeValue;
    }
    
    alert(out);
}
</ script >
</ head >

< body >
     < h1 > Process XML Document of U.S. States </ h1 >
     < br />< br />
     < form  action ="#" >
         < input  type ="button"  value ="View All Listed States"  onclick ="startRequest('all');" />
         < br />< br />
         < input  type ="button"  value ="View All Listed Northern States"  onclick ="startRequest('north');" />
     </ form >
</ body >
</ html >

<? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
< states >
   < north >
     < state > Minnesota </ state >
     < state > Iowa </ state >
     < state > North Dakota </ state >
   </ north >
   < south >
     < state > Texas </ state >
     < state > Oklahoma </ state >
     < state > Louisiana </ state >
   </ south >
   < east >
     < state > New York </ state >
     < state > North Carolina </ state >
     < state > Massachusetts </ state >
   </ east >
   < west >
     < state > California </ state >
     < state > Oregon </ state >
     < state > Nevada </ state >
   </ west >
</ states >