Parse external XML (rss) with javascript?

Question

I want to parse this RSS without Php:

<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <item>
       <title>Test</title>
       <link>http://www.test.com</link>
       <image>
          <url>http://foo.bar/test.jpg</url>
       </image>
       <description>
       <![CDATA[Description text here!<br><a href="http://www.test.se" target="_blank" rel="external" data-ajax="false">Link!</a></div>]]>
       </description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

Can I accomplish this without Php? I'm a complete newbie in jQuery/javascript.. The XML is here: http://hundkartan.se/karta/kartdata/cron_webbutiker_mob.xml

I'm going to use this in phonegap so it's an EXTERNAL feed.

Did you try anything yet, or you expecting to be new to JavaScript forever? — Grant Thomas
– Grant Thomas, Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 8:31
I've tried several javascripts that I've found with some googleing. None of them has worked yet :/ — Stichy
– Stichy, Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 8:34
possible duplicate of Parsing XML / RSS from URL using Java Script — Quentin
– Quentin, Commented Apr 5, 2013 at 8:36

Max Markson · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-05 08:44:47Z

1

My advice is to use json with javascript. You can convert the XML into a json file with some external script (like this XML2JSON).

JSON is natively supported by javascript so access to a member is really simple. For example to obtain all link you can simply do:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="xml2json.js"></script>
    ...
</head>
...

<body> 
    <script>
    var json = xml2json.parser(XML_file);
    var channel = json.rss.channel;
    var links = [];
    for(var i = 0; i < channel.item.length; i++)
        links.push(channel.item[i].link);
    ...
    </script>
    ...
</body>

answered Apr 5, 2013 at 8:44

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