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Asked: 2026-05-27T20:52:09+00:00

1:sorry for this stupid question, but I am newbie in coding and this is

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1:sorry for this stupid question, but I am newbie in coding and this is something I am not able to even start with. I am trying to work with .kml and my teacher told me about using xpath.
This is the example of .kml from code.google:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
    <Placemark>
    <name>Simple placemark</name>
    <description>Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself 
       at the height of the underlying terrain.</description>
    <Point>
      <coordinates>-122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0</coordinates>
    </Point>
  </Placemark>
</kml>

can you please give me a example of .html code returning (for example) the coordinates value ?

2: Do you think, X-path is really the best way, how to work with longer .kml files ? Or using jQuery, XQuery is better? or would you recommend something even easier?

Thanks a lot
Adam

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  1. Editorial Team

    HTML is a markup language like KML, and doesn’t have any parsing capabilities directly. You would have to load a JavaScript XPath library. There are some, but I thing that using jQuery is easier and provides more capability.

    You can use jQuery.parseXML(): http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML/

    You can also load the XML directly in JavaScript and do DOM processing. For instance:
    http://www.hiteshagrawal.com/javascript/javascript-parsing-xml-in-javascript

    DOM processing is more of a pain, jQuery is designed in part to avoid those problems.

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