Question

I’am a newbie in jquery and I want to parse subchilds in a xml file for a specific child attribute, for example, I have this cities and districts list

<city name="ANKARA"> 
  <distr>BEYPAZARI</distr>
  <distr>GÜDÜL</distr>
  <distr>KAZAN</distr>
  <distr>ÇANKAYA</distr>
</city>
<city name="İSTANBUL">
 <distr>EMİNÖNÜ</distr>
 <distr>ÇATALCA</distr>
 <distr>BEYOĞLU</distr>
 <distr>BEYKOZ</distr>
 <distr>BEŞİKTAŞ</distr>
</city>

I use this code to get city list

 $(xml).find('city').each(function(){
     var city = $(this).attr("name");
     $("<option>").text(city).appendTo("#cityList");
 }); 

but I don’t how to get the district list of for example Ankara,
someone could help me please
thanks in advance

Answer 1

 $(xml).find('city[name="ANKARA"]').each(function(){
     var city = $(this).attr("name");
     $("<option>").text(city).appendTo("#cityList");
 }); 

That’s the “attribute equals” selector you want.