So you've essentially told us that the syntax provided above is no
longer usable without providing us with an alternative that is...
Responding with something we can use (without having to install an
unnecessary plugin) would have been beneficial.
On Oct 25, 9:42 am, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Robert Koberg wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:35 AM, akel wrote:
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> >> i've been reading a lot and still does not find any solution to my
> >> query. please find the details below.
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> >> <list>
> >> <sample name="a" id="1"/>
> >> <sample name="b" id="2"/>
> >> </list>
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> >> in jquery how can i automatically find the element sample with
> >> attribute name equals to a without looping entirely the xml
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> > jQuery supports a kind of XPath syntax, so:
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> > $("/list/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'a']")
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> The "/" is no longer available and the "@" is deprecated. There is a
> basic xpath plugin available if you still want to use these selectors:
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> http://plugins.jquery.com/project/xpath
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> --Karl
