Question

First of all, I apologize for my poor English.

I’m using jquery plugin jParse which parse xml easily. here is the demo page(http://jparse.kylerush.net/demo)

I’ve tried a couple times but can’t seem to figure out how to remove <a> tag if the href is empty.

Here is my code:

elementTag: ['category', 'pubDate', 'title', 'link', 'description'];
output: '<dl><dt class="jpet00">jpet01</dt><dd><strong><a href="jpet03">jpet02</a></strong><br />jpet04</dd></dl>';

if the xml ‘link’ node is empty, i want to output like this

output: '<dl><dt class="jpet00">jpet01</dt><dd><strong>jpet03jpet02</strong><br />jpet04</dd></dl>';

I tried $(“a[href=”]”).remove() but it didn’t work.

Are there any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Where are you calling $("a[href='']").remove() – it should be in your finish() function shown in the demo. If this is where you are using it it may be that the href is not entirely empty. Try:

function finish() {
    jQuery('#jparse-meta').remove();
    $('a').each(function() {
        var string = $(this).text().replace(/\s{2,}/g, '')
        if (string == "") {
            $(this).remove();
        }
    });
}

EDIT 1 as requested in comments

function finish() {
    jQuery('#jparse-meta').remove();
    $('a[href=""]').each(function() {
        $(this).parent('strong').html($(this).text());
    });
}