Question

I have a xml like this

<Summary>
    <Data>data1</Data>
    <Data>data2</Data>
    <Data>data3</Data>
    ...
</Summary>

Initially i used to do this when data was fixed

$(xml).find('Data').eq(0).text() // I got data1
$(xml).find('Data').eq(1).text() // I got data2
$(xml).find('Data').eq(2).text() // I got data3

What if i dont know how many Data elements are there. Is there any way to find out how many data elements i retrieved in my ajax request.

Answer 1

I don’t know if I fully understand what you want but the statement below would give you the number of Data elements:

var howMany = $(xml).find('Data').length;