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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:32:02+00:00

How would I get an xml document from a particular url in javascript then

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How would I get an xml document from a particular url in javascript then look up a particular sub node and get the value?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Using jQuery it’s really easy because you an ‘query’ the XML document like you would with an X/HTML document.

    Let’s say you had a simple xml document like this…

    <book>
  <title>Catcher in the Rye</title>
  <author>J.D. Salinger</author>
</book>

    You can use jQuery to load the document and parse out particular nodes.

    <html>
<head>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        $.get("/book.xml", function(responseXml) {
            var xml = $(responseXml);
            var title = $("title", xml).text();
            var author = $("author", xml).text();

            alert(title); // >> Catcher in the Rye
            alert(author); // >> J.D. Salinger
        });
    });
  </script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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