Question

this is likely to endup being an easy fix so I’ll apologize in advance for wasting your time.
I have the following code:

$.ajax({
            url: "/room/" + $nodeid + "/rss.xml",
            dataType: "xml",
            success: function($xml){
                $($xml).find('node').each(
                    function(){
                        alert( $(this).attr('name') );

                    }
                );
            },
            failure: function(){
                alert('Ajax not responding!');
            }
        });

And I am trying to read the following xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml>
  <node>
    <Title name = 'Title'>Committtee Room 1</Title>
    <Theatre name = 'Theatre'>40</Theatre>
    <Classroom name = 'Classroom'>24</Classroom>
    <Boardroom name = 'Boardroom'>22</Boardroom>
    <Cabaret name = 'Cabaret'>24</Cabaret>

  </node>
</xml>

Can someone please enlighten me and tell me why my alert( $(this).attr('name') );
is not returning “Title”, “Theatre” etc

Thanks.

Answer 1

You’ve found the node element. This doesn’t a name attribute.

You need to find the child elements of node instead:

$($xml).find('node > *').each(