Thanks for the tip. Yes I had already tried that :( ____________________________________________ Matthew Delmarter
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ólafur Marteinsson > Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 3:48 a.m. > To: discuss@jquery.com > Subject: Re: [jQuery] getting children using XPath in IE > > > What if the elements had some data in it? Maybe it matters? Or you've > probably tried that as well. > > > Matthew Delmarter wrote: > > > > Hi Karl, > > > > I did try that - just tested it again to make sure. > > > > For example: > > > > alert( $("/xmlelement").children().length ); > > or > > alert( $("//xmlelement").children().length ); > > > > Firefox = 4 in both cases > > IE7 = 0 in both cases > > > > The XML again was: > > > > <xmlelement> > > <subelement1></subelement1> > > <subelement2></subelement2> > > <subelement3></subelement3> > > <subelement4></subelement4> > > </xmlelement> > > > > ____________________________________________ > > Matthew Delmarter > > Systems Delivery Manager > > Database Communications > > Level 7, 182 Wakefield Street, Wellington 6011 > > Phone: +64-4-381-3093 / Mobile: +64-27-536-5627 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.dbc.co.nz > > > > _____ > > > > From: Karl Swedberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, 16 February 2007 2:30 a.m. > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; jQuery Discussion. > > Subject: Re: [jQuery] getting children using XPath in IE > > > > Hi Matthew, > > > > Not sure, haven't tried this, but the problem might be that you have two > > slashes before xmlelement. Is <xmlelement> the document root? If so, try > > it > > with only one beginning slash: > > > > $("/xmlelement") > > > > > > > > > > --Karl > > _________________ > > Karl Swedberg > > www.englishrules.com > > www.learningjquery.com > > > > > > > > > > > > On Feb 15, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Matthew Delmarter wrote: > > > > > > > > Maybe this is just not possible in jQuery yet? I find it strange how it > > works fine in Firefox, but not IE7 though. > > > > Am I iterating incorrectly? Is there another method I should be using? I > > have tried a number of different methods but simply cannot get IE to > give > > me > > a list of child nodes that I can iterate thru. > > > > Any help appreciated . I am about to give up on Xpath in jQuery > otherwise. > > > > Regards, > > Matthew > > > > > > _____ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Matthew Delmarter > > Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2007 6:51 p.m. > > To: jQuery Discussion. > > Subject: [jQuery] getting children using XPath in IE > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am getting quite confused here with trying to use XML/Xpath in IE. > > > > Let's imagine that I have the following XML in my page: > > > > <xmlelement> > > <subelement1></subelement1> > > <subelement2></subelement2> > > <subelement3></subelement3> > > <subelement4></subelement4> > > </xmlelement> > > > > How do I traverse through all the children of "xmlelement"? > > > > In Firefox this works fine: > > > > $("//xmlelement").children().each(function(e) > > { > > alert("hi") > > }) > > > > In Internet Explorer (I am using ver 7) I get nothing at all. > > > > Any clues much appreciated. > > > > ____________________________________________ > > Matthew Delmarter > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jQuery mailing list > > discuss@jquery.com > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jQuery mailing list > > discuss@jquery.com > > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/getting-children- > using-XPath-in-IE-tf3232079.html#a8986603 > Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
