I have an XML document that gets generated by an object. I have no idea what it will really look like at the time of the jQuery AJAX call. What I would like to do is parse through the XML by parent and child getting the node names.

Any direction you can offer will be of great service.

Thanks!

I have an XML document that gets generated by an object. I have no idea what it will really look like at the time of the jQuery AJAX call. What I would like to do is parse through the XML by parent and child getting the node names.

Any direction you can offer will be of great service.

Thanks!

• javascript
• jquery
• xml

• Do you have control over this webservice? If you do, would you consider returning a JSON object instead of XML? JSON is much easier and faster to work with. – pixelfreak Commented Jun 17, 2011 at 18:33
• unfortunately I don't have control... It is XML and will stay XML at least until the next version... – webdad3 Commented Jun 17, 2011 at 18:34

2 Answers 2

You should be able to parse through XML the same way you parse through DOM elements in jquery;

http://jsfiddle/TBwm8/3/

var xml = "<root><stuff></stuff><stuff><stuffchild></stuffchild></stuff></root>";

function alertit(jqueryObject) {
    if (jqueryObject.length === 0) return;

    jqueryObject.each(function() {
        alert(this.nodeName.toLowerCase());
    });

    alertit(jqueryObject.children());
}

alertit($(xml));

Have you looked at jParse?