Fetching Data from XML using jQuery

Question

Currently am trying to fetch data from an XML to my SelectBox. My XML Output is like ;

<1>
    <book_able>0</book_able>
    <CODE>AF</CODE>
    <NAME>Afghanistan</NAME>
</1>
<2>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>AL</CODE>
    <NAME>Albanie</NAME>
</2>
<3>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>DZ</CODE>
    <NAME>Algerie</NAME>
</3>
<6>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>AS</CODE>
    <NAME>Samoa Americaines</NAME>
</6>
<8>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>AD</CODE>
    <NAME>Andorre</NAME>
</8>
<9>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>AO</CODE>
    <NAME>Angola</NAME>
</9>
<11>
    <book_able>1</book_able>
    <CODE>AI</CODE>
    <NAME>Anguilla</NAME>
</11>

Here the numbers denoted the order of the countries. But that numbers are not correctly ordered. For Example: After <3> the next number is <6>. So its hard to fetching using a loop. is there any method for this?

Maksym Kozlenko · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-13 04:57:26Z

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You can use jQuery.parseXML method to process XML documents.

Your XML is not valid. You can't have elements like <11>

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_elements.asp

XML Naming Rules XML elements must follow these naming rules:

Names can contain letters, numbers, and other characters Names cannot start with a number or punctuation character Names cannot start with the letters xml (or XML, or Xml, etc) Names cannot contain spaces Any name can be used, no words are reserved.

answered May 13, 2013 at 4:57

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3 Comments

Jason Sperske Over a year ago

Because jQuery's parseXML uses the browser's native XML parsing will it handle invalid XML like this question? I know later versions of jQuery took a hardline in dealing with invalid JSON (requiring keys to be quoted) I guess I could just try but I'm on an iPhone at the moment.

Maksym Kozlenko Over a year ago

Yes it is. Quote from jQuery Documentation: jQuery.parseXML uses the native parsing function of the browser to create a valid XML Document.

ULLAS MOHAN.V Over a year ago

If we request data as JSON can we handle this problem? How I can handle this situation when its as in JSON format ?

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