I don't have any reason for choosing XML, I thought XML can be
manipulated easily with JQuery and the data i am having is well
structured one.
let me know if you have some other way of doing this?
Karthick
On Dec 2, 1:08 am, Michel Belleville <michel.bellevi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I'm not sure you can even do that with jQuery the way you'd like to do it.
>
> Is it so important to use xml for medium ?
>
> Michel Belleville
>
> 2009/12/1 karthick <mskarth...@gmail.com>
>
>
>
> > Hi Michel,
>
> > Thank you very much for pointing that, now its clear why it
> > wasn't updating. But can you give me some idea on how I can achieve
> > this functionality. I just want to manipulate the xml at client side
> > using jquery and finally send it back to the server as string. I was
> > trying with append() and replaceWith() function in vain!! :(
> > I would like to do it with Jquery because i need some browser
> > compatibility. Is this really possible with jquery?
>
> > Thanks for your time
> > karthick
>
> > On Dec 1, 10:01 pm, Michel Belleville <michel.bellevi...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Easy, you're not working on the original xml string, you're working on a
> > dom
> > > object generated using the string as original. It's not attached to your
> > > theXml variable anymore.
>
> > > Michel Belleville
>
> > > 2009/12/1 karthick <mskarth...@gmail.com>
>
> > > > Hi Guys,
>
> > > > I have an simple xml dom (which is parsed from a string) like this
>
> > > > <PersonList>
> > > > <Person>
> > > > <PersonId>1</PersonId>
> > > > <LocationId>1</LocationId>
> > > > <AnswerId>1</AnswerId>
> > > > </Person>
> > > > </PersonList>
>
> > > > Now using the jquery find() method I am able to get the value of
> > > > PersonId. But what I really want is to modify its value to 30
>
> > > > ie after updating the xml it should look like this
>
> > > > <PersonList>
> > > > <Person>
> > > > <PersonId >30</PersonId>
> > > > <LocationId>1</LocationId>
> > > > <AnswerId>1</AnswerId>
> > > > </Person>
> > > > </PersonList>
>
> > > > Here is the code I am trying with
>
> > > > <script type="text/javascript">
> > > > var theXml = "<PersonList><Person><PersonId>1</PersonId><LocationId>1</
> > > > LocationId><AnswerId>1</AnswerId></Person></PersonList>";
>
> > > > $(document).ready(function(){
>
> > > > $("#butSub").click(function(event){
> > > > theXml = parseXml(theXml);
> > > > $(theXml).find('Person').each(function(){
> > > > $(this).find('PersonId').text("30");
> > > > alert($(this).find('PersonId').text());
> > //This
> > > > alert shows the updated value 30 for PersonId node
> > > > });
> > > > alert(theXml); //This alert shows old value 1 for
> > PersonId
> > > > node.
> > > > });
> > > > });
> > > > function parseXml(xml)
> > > > {
> > > > if (jQuery.browser.msie)
> > > > {
> > > > var xmlDoc = new
> > ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
> > > > xmlDoc.loadXML(xml);
> > > > xml = xmlDoc;
> > > > }
> > > > return xml;
> > > > }
> > > > </script>
>
> > > > Could you guys tell me where I am going wrong? or Is there any other
> > > > better way of doing this?
>
> > > > I really really appreciate your help on this
>
> > > > Thank you
> > > > Karthick
