Is there a way to getElement xml by attribute?

Question

I'm trying to grab an xml node by its attribute.

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I'm trying to retrieve an element by its attribute value using javascript xml instead of jquery. Is there a simple method for this?

Answer 1

It is really easy using jQuery. Suppose we have a string like this.

<document>
   <value type="people">
      <name>
         John
      </name>
   </value>
   <value type="vehicle">
      <name>
         Ford
      </name>
   </value>
</document>

Then

var xmlDocument = $.parseXML(str);
$(xmlDocument).find("value[type='people'] name").text()

We will get string 'John' back.