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JavaScript

Posted by Gabriel D. Celery
Gabriel D. Celery
13,810 Points

Accessing XML

Let's say I got a very complicated XML through an Ajax request and the following code is a fraction of it:

<info type="Alternative title" lang="EN">Title 1</info>
<info type="Alternative title" lang="DE">Title 2</info>
<info type="Alternative title" lang="FR">Title 3</info>
<info type="Alternative title" lang="ES">Title 4</info>

Question: How can I access for example the third title using javascript? (In short how can I select the content inside info by using lang="FR").

1 Answer

Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton
8,643 Points
Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton
8,643 Points

You'll probably want to use jQuery's parseXML(). You can find an example in the jQuery docs at https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML/. Then you should be able to use .find() to look through it.

Gabriel D. Celery
Gabriel D. Celery
13,810 Points

Thx for the answer. So with JQuery I can do that .find('info[lang="FR"]')

But what about plain javascript?