Question

This is my code, i am using firefox’s firebug (console.info)

 var productMap = {
    "1": "IIR"        
};

 $(xml).find('ConfigInfo').each(function(){
     var pid = $(this).find('productId').text();    
     $(this).find('productId').text(productMap[pid]);
     console.info($(this).find('productId').text());
 });

 $(xml).find('ConfigInfo').each(function(){
     console.info($(this).find('productId').text());
 });

My Xml

<list>
<com.abc.db.ConfigInfo>
<cfgId>83</cfgId>
<cfgName>test</cfgName>
<cfgDesc>test</cfgDesc>
<cfgType>test</cfgType>
<fileName>csmclientbenz.xml</fileName>
<absolutePath>../webapps/csm/files//1-105101/csmclientbenz.xml</absolutePath>
<emailAddress>[e-mail]</emailAddress>
<projectId>1-105101</projectId>
<hostname>benz</hostname>
<createDate>2011-06-15 15:29:55.0 IST</createDate>
<updateDate>2011-06-15 15:29:55.0 IST</updateDate>
<state>1</state>
<productId>1</productId>
</com.abc.db.ConfigInfo>
<com.abc.db.ConfigInfo>
<cfgId>102</cfgId>
<cfgName>cfgname1</cfgName>
<cfgDesc>test</cfgDesc>
<cfgType>test</cfgType>
<fileName>csmclientestilo.xml</fileName>
<absolutePath>../webapps/csm/files//1-105101/csmclientestilo.xml</absolutePath>
<emailAddress>[e-mail]</emailAddress>
<projectId>1-105101</projectId>
<hostname>estilo</hostname>
<createDate>2011-06-20 18:26:03.0 IST</createDate>
<updateDate>2011-06-20 18:26:03.0 IST</updateDate>
<state>1</state>
<productId>1</productId>
</com.abc.db.ConfigInfo>
</list>

My jqGrid code

var xmlDoc = $.parseXML(xml); 
         $('#configDiv').empty();
            $('<div width="100%">')
            .attr('id','configDetailsGrid')
            .html('<table id="list1" width="100%"></table>'+
                    '<div id="gridpager"></div>'+
                '</div>')       
            .appendTo('#configDiv');    

            var grid = jQuery("#list1");

            grid.jqGrid({

              datastr : xml,
              datatype: 'xmlstring',
              colNames:['cfgId','','Name', 'Host', 'Description','Product', 'Type', 'Last Updated Time','Last Updated By',''],
              colModel:[
                  {name:'cfgId',index:'cfgId', width:90, align:"right", hidden:true},
                  {name:'',index:'', width:15, align:"right",edittype:'checkbox',formatter: "checkbox",editoptions: { value:"True:False"},editable:true,formatoptions: {disabled : false}},
                  {name:'cfgName',index:'cfgName', width:90, align:"right"},
                  {name:'hostname',index:'hostname', width:90, align:"right"},
                  {name:'cfgDesc',index:'cfgDesc', width:90, align:"right"},
                  {name:'productId',index:'productId', width:60, align:"right"},
                  {name:'cfgType',index:'cfgType', width:60, align:"right"},
                  {name:'updateDate',index:'updateDate',sorttype:'Date', width:120, align:"right"},
                  {name:'emailAddress',index:'emailAddress', width:120, align:"right"},
                  {name:'absolutePath',index:'absolutePath', width:90, align:"right", hidden:true},
              ],
              pager : '#gridpager',
              rowNum:10,
              scrollOffset:0,
              height: 'auto',

              autowidth:true,
              viewrecords: true,
              gridview: true,
              xmlReader: {
                  root : "list",
                  row: "com\\.abc\\.db\\.ConfigInfo",
                  userdata: "userdata",
                  repeatitems: false
              },
              onSelectRow: function(id,status){
                  var rowData = jQuery(this).getRowData(id); 
                  configid = rowData['cfgId'];
                  configname=rowData['cfgName'];
                  configdesc=rowData['cfgDesc'];
                  configenv=rowData['cfgType'];

                  if(status==true)
                  {

                  }

                  rowChecked=1;
                  currentrow=id;
                  },
              onCellSelect: function(rowid, index, contents, event) {
                  if(index==2)
                  {

                        $(xmlDoc).find('list com\\.abc\\.db\\.ConfigInfo').each(function()
                        {
                            //alert($(this).find('cfgId').text()+" "+configid);
                            if($(this).find('cfgId').text()==configid)  
                            {
                                configname=$(this).find('cfgName').text(); 
                                configdesc=$(this).find('cfgDesc').text();
                                configenv=$(this).find('cfgType').text();
                                filename=$(this).find('fileName').text();
                                updatedate=$(this).find('updateDate').text();
                                absolutepath=$(this).find('absolutePath').text();
                                productname=productMap[$(this).find('productId').text()];
                            }
                        });

                  }
               }

            });
            grid.jqGrid('navGrid','#gridpager',{edit:false,add:false,del:false});

This is what i get the output as. My question: How to replace an xml’s node value?

Updated with my solution

I used xml=xml.replace(/<productId>1/g, "<productId>"+productMap['1']); by adding a /g it replaced all my string occurances.

Answer 1

I assume xml is a string. jQuery does not change the string, it only changes the DOM representation it created by parsing it. Every time you pass the string to jQuery, it parses it anew.

You need to keep a reference to the object jQuery creates:

var $xml = $(xml);
// now change it using $xml

If you want to “serialize” the data again, you have two possibilties:

• Either use the outerHTML plugin: xml = $xml.outerHTML();

• Or append the whole XML to some dummy element

  var $xml = $('<dummy />').append(xml);
  

  and use xml = $xml.html(); later.

  DEMO

  You can also append it, after you did the processing so that this additional element does not brake your current selectors.

Update:

I just saw that jQuery also offers $.parseXML since version 1.5. This might be helpful too.