Question

I have a string like this:

<note><url>urlofpage1</url><notes>These are the Notes of Page 1</notes></note>
<note><url>urlofpage2</url><notes>These are the Notes of Page 2</notes></note>

I’ve been trying to parse it so I can get the notes based on the URL:

so

notesofpage1 = getNotes(‘urlofpage1’)

Here’s one thing I tried but it doesn’t work for some reason.

var xml = '<note><url>urlofpage1</url><notes>These notes should load!</notes></note><note><url>urlofpage2</url><notes>These are the Notes of Page 2</notes></note>';
var $xml = $(xml);

var $notes = $xml.find('url')
                 .filter(function() { return $(this).text() == 'urlofpage1' })
                 .closest('notes');

Any ideas what i’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

function getNotes(urltext) {
    var notes;
    var xmlString = "<note><url>urlofpage1</url><notes>These notes should load!</notes></note><note><url>urlofpage2</url><notes>These are the Notes of Page 2</notes></note>";

    $(xmlString).find('url').each(function() {
        if ($(this).text() == urltext) {
        notes = $(this).next("notes").text();
        }
    });

   return notes;
}

var notesofpage1 = getNotes('urlofpage1');
var notesofpage2 = getNotes('urlofpage2');

alert("page 1: " + notesofpage1 + " page 2: " + notesofpage2);

http://jsfiddle.net/kqMhk/1/