Question

I am trying to understand what is preventing jquery from parsing my XML reply.

My code looks like this:

$.ajax({
    url: "ajax_gateway.php?request=agentdetails&agentid=6352",
    dataType: "xml",
    success: function(xml) {
        console.log(xml);
        alert($('agentname', xml).val());
        //$('input[name="agent_name"]').val($('agentname', xml).val());
    }   
});

I can see my intended XML logged to Chrome console. I checked headers, and my AJAX reply is sent with “Content-Type: text/xml”. Unfortunately my alert is empty and if I try to do:

$(xml).("agentname").val()

I get error message in chrome JS console saying “Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ( “.
Am I missing something? I have several other function in my “ajax_gateway” and they are all working fine…

Edit:
My XML response:

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<response><employee><agentname>My Name</agentname><agentteam>My Team</agentteam><agentphoneid>6352</agentphoneid></employee></response>

While papaiatis answered my question, would anyone bother to explain why:

$(xml).("agentname").text();

Is valid?

Answer 1

Try to use text() instead.

alert($('agentname', xml).text());

val() is used with form elements.