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jskidd3
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Reputation: 4783

How to put XML data into an array/object?

Below I have a piece of PHP code that essentially rips an XML file from another site and prints it to my index.php page. I'm doing this because of access-control-allow-origin so that I can get the data using AJAX (not allowed from other domains (is this known as a proxy?)).

<?php
    header ("Content-Type:text/xml");
    $url = 'http://pathtoxmlfilehere.com/blablabla.xml';
    $xml = file_get_contents($url);
    print $xml;
?>

So, now I have this file on the same server as mine, I just need to make an AJAX call to get it, right? So, I'm using jQuery so might as well make use of $.get().

$.get('PathToLocalXmlThatIUsedPhpToDownload', function(data) {
    // What goes in here?
    // Do I need to parse the data as XML?
});

I need to put the data into an object/array (not sure which is more appropriate) so that I can manipulate/display it easily. I'm struggling to do this, if anyone can help me out I'd really appreciate it. I have read other similar questions and their solutions don't seem to work for me, hence why I've decided to post my exact situation in order to find more exact answers.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 276

Answers (1)

colestrode
colestrode

Reputation: 10658

You can specify an xml datatype in your get request. The data object will then be the XML root element:

$.get('PathToLocalXmlThatIUsedPhpToDownload', function(data) {
   //work with xml here
}, 'xml');

It's probably more efficient to work with the XML directly, rather than converting it to a javascript object and then working with the data. However, if it makes more sense in the context of your problem to use a javascript object, see the answer to this post: Tool (javascript) to convert a XML string to JSON

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/

Upvotes: 1

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