Parsing XML with jQuery

Question

I have been having issues with parsing some XML. I have no control over the structure of the XML I receive.

<response>
  <variable name = "variable_name">variable value</variable>
  <variable name = "variable_name">variable value</variable>
</response>

I need to get the variable_name and value and write them to the webpage. However the number of of variables is dynamic.

I have already created functions for parsing different xml responses but the structure I receive is different for these.

How can I adapt the following code for the response?

function parseSystem(xml){
     ControllerFound = true;
      $(xml).find("response").each(function()
       {
            $("#ProjectName").append($(this).find("projectName").text());
});

Cheers

Mike

pconcepcion · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26 11:25:07Z

1

You can try with:

function parseSystem(xml){
      $('variable', xml).each(function()
       {
            var var_instance = $(this);
            $("#container").append("Name: "+var_instance.attr('name')+"Value: "+ var_instance.text());
       }
}

and having on the html a container to append the values:

 <div id="container"></div>

edited Apr 26, 2011 at 11:25

answered Apr 26, 2011 at 10:40

pconcepcion

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3 Comments

amustill Over a year ago

You would need to make the selector $('variable', xml), and you should probably prevent using $(this) twice by writing it to a variable.

Mike James Over a year ago

Will this actually write both responses to the webpage though. It looks to me (I'm new to Javascript / jquery) that it would write the values to #ProjectName twice, which is not the desired functionality.

pconcepcion Over a year ago

@Michael I think now the response is a bit more clear, you need a container on the web page where you can add the values.

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