Question

let’s say I got a place_categories.xml file as following, and this is pure xml file and is not retrieved from any database:

<category>
<pcid>23533</pcid>
<name>Designer Clothing Shop</name>
<sub_category>shopping</sub_category>
</category>

<category>
<pcid>23540</pcid>
<name>Dim Sum Restaurant</name>
<sub_category>food & drink</sub_category>
</category>

How to find such : Select name, sub_category where pcid=23540 in PHP and JQuery and resulting

Dim Sum Restaurant
food & drink

Answer 1

You could try something like this if you want to avoid XPath:

$.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "place_categories.xml",
        dataType: "xml",
        success: function parseXml(xml)
        {
            //find every Tutorial and print the author
            $(xml).find("rootnode").each(function() {
                if($(this).find("pcid").text()==="23540") {
                    console.log($(this).find("sub_category").text());
                }
            });
        }
});