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hackio
hackio

Reputation: 796

Parsing xml with jquery

I have this function where i want to parse the xml with jquery. 

function xmlParser(xml) {

     var xmlTitle = xml.data;
     alert($(xmlTitle).find('title'));
}

I want to alert the title of the the xml like this but it doesn't work. This is what i did, which can be helpful you to see the xml object.

alert(xml); 
alert(xml.data);

xml alerts: [object Object.]

xml.data alerts: <data><title>Hello</title><topic>World</topic></data>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 211

Answers (1)

adeneo
adeneo

Reputation: 318332

That's an element with the tag title, which means it's an object, and alerts can't show objects, you should use console.log for that. To show the elements text, you could do:

function xmlParser(xml) {
     var xmlTitle = xml.find('title');
     alert($(xmlTitle).text());
}

FIDDLE

If your getting the XML whith a jQuery method that uses $.ajax, it should be parsed already, otherwise a good practice is to parse the XML with $.parseXML to make sure jQuery can treat it the usual way.

function xmlParser(xml) {
     var xmlTitle = $.parseXML(xml.data);
     alert($(xmlTitle).find('title').text());
}

var xml = {}
    xml.data = '<data><title>Hello</title><topic>World</topic></data>';


xmlParser(xml)​

Upvotes: 10

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