You should be able to find the tag using jQuery(data).find("ArticleTitle")
but the problem is that the XML returned by PubMed is escaped rather than
well-formed XML. I have no idea how to handle this. Can anyone else help?
- Abi2009/1/16 Jon <[email protected]> > > I'm struggling with trying to learn to use jQuery to grab XML > data...maybe someone will take pity on me and give me a hand with a > simple example. > > I have the following code (with a static URL for illustration) which > gets an article from the PubMed database in XML format. The > displayMessage statement shows that the desired XML is being returned. > Within the XML is a single occurrence of data with the tag > ArticleTitle, and despite trying several ideas from this forum and > elsewhere, I can't for the life of me figure out how to successfully > get the contents of the ArticleTitle tag and assign it to a variable. > > execute: function( PMID ) { > var getUrl = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19072263? > report=XML&format=text<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19072263?report=XML&format=text> > "; > jQuery.get(getUrl,null,function(data){ > displayMessage(data); > }); > } > > Many thanks to anyone willing to point a beginner in the right > direction. > --Jon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
