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    Default jQuery XML particular node

    i am parsing xml thru jQuery fine like this
    Code:
    $(document).ready(function(){
      $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "jquery_xml.xml",
        dataType: "xml",
        success: parseXml,
    	error: err
    		});
    });
    function err(xhr, reason, ex) { 
      $('#output').append(reason);
    }
    
    function parseXml(xml){
      $(xml).find("Tutorial").each(function(){
    	  $("#output_2").append($(this).find("Categories").text() + "<br />");
      });
      
    }
    xml
    Code:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
    <RecentTutorials>
      <Tutorial author="The Reddest">
        <Title>Silverlight and the Netflix API</Title>
        <Categories>
          <Category>Tutorials</Category>
          <Category>Silverlight 2.0</Category>
          <Category>Silverlight</Category>
          <Category>C#</Category>
          <Category>XAML</Category>
        </Categories>
        <Date>1/13/2009</Date>
      </Tutorial>
      <Tutorial author="The Hairiest">
        <Title>Cake PHP 4 - Saving and Validating Data</Title>
        <Categories>
          <Category>Tutorials</Category>
          <Category>CakePHP</Category>
          <Category>PHP</Category>
        </Categories>
        <Date>1/12/2009</Date>
      </Tutorial>
      <Tutorial author="The Tallest">
        <Title>Silverlight 2 - Using initParams</Title>
        <Categories>
          <Category>Tutorials</Category>
          <Category>Silverlight 2.0</Category>
          <Category>Silverlight</Category>
          <Category>C#</Category>
          <Category>HTML</Category>
        </Categories>
        <Date>1/6/2009</Date>
    </Tutorial>
      <Tutorial author="The Fattest">
        <Title>Controlling iTunes with AutoHotkey</Title>
        <Categories>
          <Category>Tutorials</Category>
          <Category>AutoHotkey</Category>
        </Categories>
        <Date>12/12/2008</Date>
      </Tutorial>
    </RecentTutorials>
    but this returns ALL the nodes under Categories.
    How can i target a particular node under Categories such as Category[1]
    so that i output the second entry under this node? i have attached my files
    thanks in advance
    Last edited by ggalan; 08-16-2011 at 04:24 AM.

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    If you want all the second Category nodes from each Tutorial node, I'd try:

    Code:
    function parseXml(xml){
      $(xml).find("Tutorial").each(function(){
    	  $("#output_2").append($(this).find("Category").eq(1).text() + "<br />");
      });
    }
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