Question

I’m trying to retrofit a page to read from XML rather than the DOM, and I’d rather not use $(xml).find(‘blah’) for every single call, and I was wondering if there was a way to point jQuery at xml, rather than the DOM.

For instance, I’d like to be able to navigate my xhtml with the jQuery method as such:
$(‘blah’).whatever

Is this possible?

Answer 1

No, you cannot redirect the global document object to point to an arbitrary DOM document you’ve created.

jQuery has given you the context argument to the $() function for exactly this purpose, so you should just use that:

$('blah', xmlDoc).whatever()

Or you can store it in a var to reduce repetition if you like, and traverse downwards from there:

var $xml = $(xmlDoc);
$xml.find('blah').foo();
$xml.find('bloh').bar();