Question

I am going nuts trying to figure this out, I am trying to build a simple menu tree with multi levels

RootFolder
- First Sub Folder
-- First Sub Sub Folder
--- First Sub Sub Sub Folder
--- First Sub Sub Sub Sub Folder
- Second Sub Folder
- Second Sub Sub Folder

My XML is very simple (not the right values)

<OrgFolderDetails>
    <FolderName>Main Folder</FolderName>
    <TheChildren>
        <OrgFolderDetails>
            <FolderName>First Sub Folder</FolderName>
            <TheChildren>
                <OrgFolderDetails>
                    <FolderName>First Sub Sub Folder</FolderName>
                    <TheChildren>
                        <OrgFolderDetails>
                            <FolderName>First Sub Siub Sub Folder</FolderName>
                            <TheChildren>
                                <OrgFolderDetails>
                                    <FolderName>First Sub Sub Sub Sub Folder</FolderName>
                                    <TheChildren/>
                                </OrgFolderDetails>
                            </TheChildren>
                        </OrgFolderDetails>
                    </TheChildren>
                </OrgFolderDetails>
            </TheChildren>
        </OrgFolderDetails>
        <OrgFolderDetails>
            <FolderName>Second Sub Folder</FolderName>
            <TheChildren>
                <OrgFolderDetails>
                    <FolderName>Second Sub Sub Folder</FolderName>
                    <TheChildren/>
                </OrgFolderDetails>
            </TheChildren>
        </OrgFolderDetails>
    </TheChildren>
</OrgFolderDetails>

I have used jQuery’s .filter() and. find() each() without any success, it doesn’t give me the nice dashes to indicate which level I am in, it just spits out the folder names.

My code that traverses

 $(data).find("FolderName").each(function(){
             var folderName = $(this).text();

            $("#folderLevels").append(folderName+"<br/>");
         });

Answer 1

Okay, so from what I understand, we need to build a menu, with a certain number of preceding dashes, dependent on the level of the child.
Lucky, jQuery makes this kinda easy.

$(data).find("FolderName").each(function(){ 
    var levels = $(this).parents("OrgFolderDetails").size();
    var text = $(this).text();
    var html = "";

    for(var j=0; j < levels; j++){
        html += "-";    
    }
    html += " "+text+"</br>"; //add in that space after the dashes, and the <br>

    $("#folderLevels").append(html);
});

Hope that helps. The main helper in this is the parents() method.
http://api.jquery.com/parents