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David Smith
David Smith

Reputation: 11

read xml file using jquery in an html file

I am new to jQuery and am trying to read in an xml file. I have created a simple html file as shown below and in the same directory have an xml file called allTasks.xml. I see the alert when the document is loaded and I see the second alert 'Here Now'. However when I try and use the find method I cannot traverse the xml correctly. Is there a good way to test if I am actually loading the xml file at all? Also should this work in a html file or should I be using php?

Any help would be greatly received !

html
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Read XML File</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.2/jquery.mobile-1.3.2.min.css">
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.2/jquery.mobile-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function(){
        alert('Loaded');

         var $myXML;

         $.get('allTasks.xml', function(data) {
            $myXML = data; ;
             }, 'xml');

             alert('Here now ');

             alert($myXML.find("Tasks>Task>TaskId").text());
      });
  </script>

</head>
<body>

<div data-role="page" id="page1">
  <div data-role="header" class="ui-bar ui-bar-b" style="height:50px;">
  </div>      <!-- end of header  -->


  <div data-role="content">
  <div id='names'></div>

  </div>    <!-- end of content  -->


</div> <!-- end of page div -->

</body>
</html>

xml

<TaskList>
  <Tasks>
    <Task>
      <TaskId>1</TaskId>
      <Name>Name of Task 1</Name>
    </Task>
    <Task>
      <TaskId>2</TaskId>
      <Name>Name of Task 2</Name>
    </Task>
  </Tasks>
</TaskList>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3849

Answers (1)

amakhrov
amakhrov

Reputation: 3939

$.get('allTasks.xml', function(data) {
    var parsed = $(data);
    alert( parsed.find('Tasks>Task>TaskId').text() );
}

Upvotes: 1

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