I tried using jQuery parse but, it is helpful only when searching by a value or when element name is known in advance.
I need to obtain root element name itself from the document. How do I achieve this?
I can do string arithmetic to get this out, but it would not be reliable approach in production code.
This is a pure JavaScript solution for your problem (I hope).
// The initial string
var xmlString = '<?xml version="1.0" ?><myRoot><someNode></someNode></myRoot>';
// Parse the string with the function defined below
var doc = parseXml(xmlString);
// Extract the name of the root element
var rootName = doc.documentElement.nodeName;
alert(rootName); // Alerts "myRoot" in this example
// Cross-browser function to parse an XML string
function parseXml(xmlString) {
var doc;
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
// Internet Explorer
doc = new ActiveXObject("MSXML.DOMDocument");
doc.async = false;
doc.loadXML(xmlString);
} else {
// Other browsers
var parser = new DOMParser();
doc = parser.parseFromString(xmlString, "text/xml");
}
return doc;
}
can you check this example
var xml = '<xml><thing>stuff</thing><thing2>value</thing2></xml>';
var firstNodeName = $(xml).attr("nodeName");
alert("The first node name is: " + firstNodeName );
it return "XML"
xml = "<?xml version='1.0'?><xml><thing>stuff</thing><thing2>value</thing2></xml>";