To my knowledge, XML parsing via the jQuery constructor isn't supported.
See here: http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3143
--Erik
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, KenLG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> For much of my app, I'm doing an Ajax hit to the server to grab XML.
> That works great.
>
> But, in some cases, I've got too many pieces of data (unrelated) that
> I need to pull so I'm trying to do a simple passthrough from the
> server side (I'm using ASP.Net). So, I'll either output from SQL
> Server or hand-stitch some XML and write it to the page.
>
> Whenever I do this passthrough (whether it comes from SQL Server or
> from my own efforts), the XML doesn't get parsed by Jquery.
>
> For example:
>
> var sTestXML = '<?xml version="1.0"?>\r
> \n<EventContacts><EventContact><EventContactData>Hello</
> EventContactData></EventContact></EventContacts>\r\n';
>
> var test = $(sTestXML);
>
> alert(test.find("EventContact").length);
>
> will result in the alert showing zero.
>
> Now, if I lower case some of the tags (and this will vary from XML doc
> to XML doc but usually it's the root and object-level tags), it'll
> work. What's going on here?
>
