Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't seem to be an XML object at
all. Isn't that simply a string that looks like XML. Also, by using get
() aren't you simply converting that string into an array anyway?
On Jan 22, 3:00 am, Ricardo Tomasi <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What kind ofsorting?
>
> xml= '<base>';xml+= '<item type="c">one</item>';xml+= '<item
> type="b">two</item>';xml+= '<item type="d">three</item>';xml+= '<item
> type="f">three</item>';xml+= '<item type="a">three</item>';xml+= '</base>';
>
> var sorted = $(xml).filter('item').get().sort(function(a,b){
> var at = $(a).attr('type'), bt = $(b).attr('type');
> return (at < bt) ? -1 : 1;
>
> });
>
> $(sorted).each(function(){
> console.log( this );
>
> });
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference/Global...
>
> - ricardo
>
> On Jan 21, 10:01 pm, skube <sku...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It seems jQuery is really great at traversing anXMLobject. It is
> > quite easy to gather and filter node data. However I can't seem to
> > find any information regardingsortingXMLusing jQuery. Is it
> > possible? Or is there a plug-in?
>
> > I have a project which requires me to read anXMLfile, then filter
> > and sort the data. Filtering I can do, but I have no idea how to sort
> >XML. Since arrays are easily sortable in JS, my idea is to convert the
> >XMLinto an array first, then filter the array (which is not as easy
> > as filteringXMLw/ jQuery) then sort the array.
>
> > Does anyone have any better ideas?
>
> > thanks,
> > skube
