Question

How would i find the xml node that has a certain text value?

example i want to do something like this which is not working:

var xml = "<data><itemB>more data</itemB><itemC>yes, more data</itemC><itemA>some data</itemA></data>";

var searchString = "more data";

var foundin = $(xml + ":contains(" + searchString + ")");

Answer 1

You can invoke the :contains selector with the root XML element as its context:

var foundin = $(":contains(" + searchString + ")", xml);

You can see the results in this fiddle.