Load XML object

JamesD

Hi everyone, Im very newbie with jQuery, AJAX and I am trying to figure out how to load an XML object into a datatable.

I want to parse two news feeds from popular websites and then pass some of the information into the table. I am using a for loop to loop inside the feeds and then I have an XML object from which I would like to gather the information from. Here is what I have tried so far by searching on the forum:
```

$.ajax(feed[i], {
    accepts:{
        xml:"application/rss+xml"
    },
    dataType:"xml",
    success:function(data) {

$(document).ready(function() {

        $('#example').DataTable( {
            "ajax": {
             "dataType": "xml",
            "url": feed[i],
           "dataSrc" : function() {

             }
          },
             retrieve: true,
            columns: [
                { title: "some_info" },
                { title: "some_info" },
                { title: "some_info" },
                { title: "some_info" }
    ]
} );

} );
} );
```
Where feed is my array with the feeds and "data" is the xml object which I am trying to convert it into an acceptable type in order for the datatable to read it.
Thank you

allan

What does JSON.stringify(xmlToJson(data)); create? Can you show a dump of that array?

Allan

JamesD

Thanks for your answer Allan, actually it doesnt do anything because "xmlToJson" obviously gets undefined. I shouldnt include it,sorry. I have now edited it and deleted it.

allan

It should be that the first parameter passed into the ajax.dataSrc option is the XML document as retrieved by $.ajax(). You would then need to use some Javascript to convert that XML into an array of arrays or arrays of objects depending on how you want to use DataTables.

Allan