"link" tags only have attributes, they don't "contain" anything.
Karl Rudd
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Karthik
<karthick.vijayara...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to parse a rss feed. My code seems to be able to extract
> the value for any tag in the feed except the "link" tag. I am using
> Firefox 3.0.6.
>
> $.get("pressRelease1.xml",{},function(d){
> $(d).find('item').each(function() {
> var $item = $(this);
>
> var title = $item.find('title').text(); //this works
> var description = $item.find('description').text(); //this
> works too
> var link = $item.find('link').text(); //this doesnt work
> });
> });
>
> When i turned on Venkman's javascript debugger, the innerHtml had
> something like this:
> <link>Bla Bla Bla\n .
> It seems to be missing the the end tag for link. I cant seem to
> understand this behavior. I googled a lot but i couldnt find posts
> related to this problem. I am very sure that there is nothing wrong in
> my feed. If you have come across something like this, can you please
> help? Thank you.
>
> Thanks
> Karthik
>
