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Reputation: 10547

jquery xml parsing question

Say I have xml like this:

<outer>
  <inner name="name0" type="type0" />
  <inner name="name1" type="type1" />
  <inner name="name2" type="type2" />
</outer>

I'm parsing the xml using jquery and I'm inside the each loop of the outer tag:

$(xml).find('outer').each(function() {
   //what goes here?
});

Say I know the values that can appear in the name id of <inner>. How do I, in the code above, get the appropriate type from the given <inner> tag.

Example:

I have the string var name = "name1" Inside the each loop, I need to pull type1 from the <inner> tag that has name="name1". Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 423

Answers (3)

bobince
bobince

Reputation: 536469

I'm parsing the xml using jquery

Not really. $() does not include an XML parser; you are parsing it as HTML, using the browser's innerHTML parser. Because your input is not valid HTML, you might get any old strange DOM as the output, especially in IE, which doesn't like custom elements much.

It's annoyingly tricky to get an XML parser in a cross-browser way; it is much less well-supported than having XMLHttpRequest return an XML document. In many modern browsers you can ask for a new DOMParser, but for IE you have to create an MSXML2.DOMDocument ActiveXObject, and for a few older browser you have to document.implementation.createDocument (and even then the load method isn't standard or supported everywhere).

Upvotes: 3

Ender
Ender

Reputation: 15221

var name = "name1";
$(xml).find('outer').each(function() {
   var type = $(this).children('[name=' + name + ']').attr('type');
});

Upvotes: 0

Nick Craver
Nick Craver

Reputation: 630469

You can use an attribute-equals selector, like this:

var name="name1";
$(xml).find('outer').each(function() {
  var type = $(this).children("[name='" + name + "']").attr("type");
  //use type
});

You can give it a try here, if the XML is exactly what you posted and not a subset, just remove the .find('outer'), since the root element is already where you want to be.

Upvotes: 0

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