I know a few of you will scream JSON at me but i have done quite a bit using ajax and xml in the past so there;-).

You can use standard javascript for this(as i have) but as ever jQuery provide tools to do the same functions in just a few lines. When you need to RAD this is very helpful.

So first off lets see how JQuery handles an xmlDocument below.

<root>

<clients>

<client id="1">

<surname>Kat</surname>

<forename>The</forename>

</client>

</clients>

</root>

The first thing to do is cast the xmlDocument to a jQuery object.

Now to select elements we can use the .find() method. 

This really is where jQuery excels. simply put .find(name) will find all element(s) named name.

var clients = $(jXML).find('client');

Notice we can bypass the clients element and go straight to client. We could also just get all surnames in a similar way.

Now to access the properties we either use .attr() method for attributes or the .text() method for text contents.

$(clients).each(function() {

alert($(this).attr('id'));

});

// would give alert 1 and alert 2

$(clients).each(function() {

alert($(this).find('surname').text());

});

// would give alert Kat and alert Kat2

So lets add it all together with the marvellous $.ajax() method.