Question

I have the following AJAX and XML code. You can see the values that I am trying to set. I’m just not sure how to go about parsing the XML file to set these variables.

AJAX code:

$.ajax({
          url: 'PATH TO XML',
          dataType: ($.browser.msie) ? "text" : "xml",
          success: function(data) {
                        var context = default;
                        if ( ... ) {
                           context = not-default;
                        }
                    }

XML code:

<messages>
 <message id="id1" context="default">
      <content>

            <p>Default HTML</p>


      </content>
 </message>
 <message id="id2" context="not-default">
      <content>

        <p>Not Default HTML</p>

      </content>
</message>
</messages>

Answer 1

It’s pretty simple:

$(yourXmlFileContents);

From here, just use the .find() method to select elements:

$(yourXmlFileContents).find('foo[context=bar]');

NOTE: If you supply the document’s contents as a string jQuery won’t interpret it as XML, but as HTML instead.