jQuery.parseXML()
Categories: Utilities
jQuery.parseXML( data )Returns: XMLDocument
Description: Parses a string into an XML document.
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jQuery.parseXML( data )
version added: 1.0data a well-formed XML string to be parsed
jQuery.parseXML
uses the native parsing function of the browser to create a valid XML Document. This document can then be passed to jQuery
to create a typical jQuery object that can be traversed and manipulated.
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Create a jQuery object using an XML string and obtain the value of the title node.
HTML:
<p id="someElement"></p> <p id="anotherElement"></p>
Code:
var xml = "<rss version='2.0'><channel><title>RSS Title</title></channel></rss>", xmlDoc = $.parseXML( xml ), $xml = $( xmlDoc ), $title = $xml.find( "title" ); /* append "RSS Title" to #someElement */ $( "#someElement" ).append( $title.text() ); /* change the title to "XML Title" */ $title.text( "XML Title" ); /* append "XML Title" to #anotherElement */ $( "#anotherElement" ).append( $title.text() );