XML is an important part of AJAX. Heck, it's right in the name, "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML", so knowing how to parse XML is equally important. This tutorial will demonstrate how to parse XML using jQuery that should cover almost all cases you'd typically run into.
Using jQuery to parse XML is vaguely reminiscent of LINQ in the recent .NET frameworks. That's a good thing, since LINQ made parsing XML in .NET vastly easier than previous techniques. With jQuery, when you receive XML from a callback, you're not actually getting raw text, you're actually getting a DOM (document object model) that jQuery can traverse very quickly and efficiently to give you the data you need.
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Using jQuery to parse XML is vaguely reminiscent of LINQ in the recent .NET frameworks. That's a good thing, since LINQ made parsing XML in .NET vastly easier than previous techniques. With jQuery, when you receive XML from a callback, you're not actually getting raw text, you're actually getting a DOM (document object model) that jQuery can traverse very quickly and efficiently to give you the data you need.
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