Using jquery 1.2.6, but I quickly tested this on 1.3 as well.
I am parsing the google books search feed
http://code.google.com/apis/books/docs/gdata/developers_guide_protocol.html#SearchingForBooks
(about 1/3 down the page is an example feed). This feed has tags like
<openSearch:totalResults>, <dc:creator>, <dc:title>.
This code succeeds in IE and firefox, but not in Chrome or Safari.
1 $.get( URLstem+query, {}, function(xml){
2 numberResults = $('feed', xml).find('openSearch\
\:totalResults').text();
The variable numberResults comes back empty, not even zero or -1.
If I change line 2 to
2 numberResults = $('feed', xml).find
('totalResults').text();
The variable numberResults comes back correctly with the number in
between the <openSearch:totalResults></openSearch:totalResults> tag.
But only in Safari/Chrome, and not in IE or Firefox.
If there's no way to fix this in Line 2, I'm thinking of testing for
the type of browser, or running a regex on the entire feed to remove
the prefixes, so that <dc:title> would become <title> etc. I don't
like either of those options.
Thanks for any ideas.
