find xml node using jquery

[davebat]

Hi,

I have an asp .net image map loaded from xml, I am using jQuery to highlight the map.

At the same time I want to look up some descriptive text held in the xml. So far I have this.

  $.ajax({
            type: "GET",
            url: "/xml/" + feed,
            dataType: "xml",
            success: function(xml) {
            $(xml).find('area').each(function() {
                
                    var Helptext = $(this).find('helptext').text();
                    $('#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_desc').html("<p class='helpHeader'>" + DB + "</p><p>" + Helptext.toString() + "</p>");

                });
            }
        });

And my xml looks like this

<area>
		<componentDrillDown>N</componentDrillDown>
		<component>NA</component>
		<shape>poly</shape>
		<helptext>to do</helptext>
		<title>Light</title>
		<coords>343, 25, 366, 15, 390, 13, 408, 15, 416, 19, 420, 22, 410, 32, 395, 40, 377, 40, 361, 38, 351, 33</coords>
	</area>

At the minute this just gets the last helptext node in the file, how would I find the helptext based on the sibling node title's text?

[gep13]

Hello,

You should be able to do something like this:

$(xml).find("area helptext:contains('to do')")

See here:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xm...x.html?ca=drs-

For more information.

Gary