On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Robert Koberg wrote:



On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:35 AM, akel wrote:

i've been reading a lot and still does not find any solution to my
query. please find the details below.

<list>
<sample name="a" id="1"/>
<sample name="b" id="2"/>
</list>

in jquery how can i automatically find the element sample with
attribute name equals to a without looping entirely the xml


jQuery supports a kind of XPath syntax, so:

$("/list/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'a']")

The "/" is no longer available and the "@" is deprecated. There is a basic xpath plugin available if you still want to use these selectors:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/xpath

--Karl

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