Question

I have a xml doxument that looks like this:

<create>
 <customers>
  <customer>
   <first-name>foo</first-name>
   <last-name>bar</last-name>
   ...
  </customer>
  ...
 </customers>
</create>

How can I address a single node, which appears several times? I’ve alredy tried this but it isn’t working

var text = xmlDocument.find('customer')[0].text();
// do something

Following code is working but is inappropiate:

xmlDocument.find('customer').each(function() {
   var text = $(this).text();
   // do something
});

Answer 1

Use

var text = xmlDocument.find('customer').first().text();

or

var text = xmlDocument.find('customer:first').text();

or

var text = xmlDocument.find('customer').eq(0).text();

[0] selects the underlying DOM node, not the jQuery object.