[jQuery] Re: Parse encoded HTML in XML node

[Fabdrol]

Hi Jeff,

Could you post your JS code and your XML? I'd like to play around with
it for you, but things aren't really clear right now ;-)

Fabian

On 23 sep, 21:36, Jeff <jpellet...@nesn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using $.ajax with a dataType of xml.  The XML document I'm getting
> has a <content> node that contains a bunch of encoded HTML.  Sample:
>
> <content>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;
>
> When I alert the text contained within the <content> node:
>
> alert(data.find('content').text());
>
> I can see the above encoded content as formatted HTML:
>
> <p><a href="
>
> I realize that the text() function is returning text, and not the
> nodes within.  How can I return the nodes within, either as a jQuery
> object or the DOM nodes themselves, rather than the text, so I can
> actually parse them?
>
> When I remove the .text() function from the above, ala:
>
> data.find('content p');
>
> I get Undefined.  I've tried all kinds of selectors, and nothing
> works.
>
> Finally data.find('content); returns object Object.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff