Question

I am querying the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Search Service to write some results into a web part. I have the query working correctly but am having some trouble parsing the xml response via JQuery.

Below is the XML response :

<document>
<properties>
 <Property>
  <Name>p1</Name> 
  <Type>String</Type> 
  <Value>blue</Value> 
  </Property>
<Property>
  <Name>title</Name> 
  <Type>string</Type> 
  <Value>titreA</Value> 
  </Property>
  </properties>
</document>
<document>
<properties>
 <Property>
  <Name>p1</Name> 
  <Type>String</Type> 
  <Value>blue</Value> 
  </Property>
  <Property>
  <Name>title</Name> 
  <Type>string</Type> 
  <Value>titreB</Value> 
  </Property>
  </properties>
</document>
<document>
<properties>
 <Property>
  <Name>p1</Name> 
  <Type>String</Type> 
  <Value>green</Value> 
  </Property>
 <Property>
  <Name>title</Name> 
  <Type>string</Type> 
  <Value>titreC</Value> 
  </Property>
  </properties>
</document>
<document>
<properties>
 <Property>
  <Name>p1</Name> 
  <Type>String</Type> 
  <Value>red</Value> 
  </Property>
 <Property>
  <Name>title</Name> 
  <Type>string</Type> 
  <Value>titreD</Value> 
  </Property>
  </properties>
</document>

How can i retrieve p1 value, and number of occurence of this value ?
Like this : blue(2), green(1), red(1)

Answer 1

XML data can be ‘parsed’ using jQuery’s methods just like HTML. Assuming data is the XML data.

var name = 'p1';
$data = $(data);
$p1 = $data.find('Name:contains("'+name+'")').parent('Property');
p1Value = $p1.map(function(i,v){
  return $(v).children('Value').text(); 
}).get();
alert(p1Value);

p1Value is an array of values that have a name of ‘p1’.

p1Value[0] is equal to ‘blue’.

If you also want the number of occurrences, you can do this.

var name = 'p1';
$data = $(data);
$p1 = $data.find('Name:contains("'+name+'")').parent('Property');
p1Values = {};
$p1.each(function(i,v){
  var val = $(v).children('Value').text();
  if(p1Values.hasOwnProperty(val)){
    p1Values[val]++;
  }
  else{
    p1Values[val] = 1;
  }
});

p1Values is an object with the value as the property name, and the occurrences as the property value.

p1Value['blue'] is equal to 2.