Question

I’m having trouble reading this xml with jQuery.

http://jsfiddle.net/VLtqY/2/

XML:

<myElements type="AA" coID="A923">
 <element1>01</element1> 
 <element2>02</element2>
 <element3>03</element3>
</myElements>

I’m looking for the following output:

element1=01
element2=02
element3=03

A little help please.

Answer 1

First, you need to wrap your xml variable in a call to the jQuery function, as in $(xml). Then, a call to children() will get all of your target elements.

Here’s a very basic (and sloppy), working example of iterating through the elements, but it’s just the selector that needs changing:

var xml = '<myElements type="AA" coID="A923"><element1>01</element1> <element2>02</element2><element3>03</element3></typeData>';

var myOutput = $("#output");

myOutput.append("=== start ===<br />");
$(xml).children().each(function () {
    var xmlnode = $(this);
    myOutput.append(this.tagName + xmlnode.text() + '<br/>');
});

myOutput.append("=== end ===");

Working demo: http://jsfiddle.net/UByfW/2/