Please allow me to rephrase my question into something much simple:
how can i preload an xml file into a jquery object, which means: an object i
can then use in my jquery script like $(xml).find('element').attr('title') ?
thank you for any help
Alex
---------- Original Message ----------
To: Jquery-en (jquery-en@googlegroups.com)
From: Alexandre Plennevaux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: [jQuery] loading xml and search through it
Date: 28/1/2008 11:37:53
Hello,
This should be so easy yet i can't make it work. Here is what i'm trying to do:
i have a data structure stored as an xml file.
I need to load this structure once at the start of the application.
I need a function to search through this data structure and return the
corresponding value.
So far i fail miserably because i don't quite get the synchronous/asynchronous
side of jlife.
Here is the code i came up with :
// my searching function
function findProjectAnchor(projectName, scape){
var thisDS = datascapeAnchorsXml.find('scape[title="' + scape + '"]');
var myVal = $("item:contains('" + project + "')", thisDS).attr('rel');
return myVal;
}
jQuery(function($){
$.get("projects/datascapes.xml", {}, function(xmlData, strStatus){
var datascapeAnchorsXml = $(xmlData);
});
/// this is how i call it:
UI.dsAnchor = findProjectAnchor(UI.item, UI.sortBy);
);
Problem is that the function is called before the xml gets loaded, thus returns
"undefined". Any idea how i can make sure it does not perform the search before
the xml is loaded?
thank you for your time and assistance,
Alexandre
