[jQuery] Re: Ajax scoping problem

[David Decraene]

why not:
var myarray = new Array();
 function handleXML(xml) {
    $(xml).find("something somethingelse").each(function(){
       myarray.push( $(this).text());
   });

Can't see why that wouldn't work.
David
http://OntologyOnline.org


On Jan 22, 11:53 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm probably being daft, but I'm trying to populate an array by
> processing some xml but my (global) array gets destroyed when the ajax
> function has done it's job. I know it's because the ajax function. I
> know it's a scoping problem but I don't know how to fix it and most
> fixes I found online didn't work;
>
> My code goes something like this:
>
> var myarray = new Array();
>
> function readXml() {
>    $.ajax({
>       type: "POST",
>       url: story_data_xml_path,
>       dataType: "xml",
>       success: handleXml
>    });
>
> }
>
> function handleXML(xml) {
>    $(xml).find("something").each(function(i){
>        myarray[i] = $(this).find("somethingelse").text();
>    });
>
> }