obtaining xml node value in javascript

Question

I'm putting together a script for InDesign using javascript, and have a settings xml file from which I'd like to pull out a value of a particular node.

I've successfully read in the XML file

var xml = new XML(file.read());

and can easily pull attribute values / node lengths etc, however I'd like to pull the text inside a particular node.

<article>
    <title>This is the title</title>
</article>

I've tried xml.article[0].title but this returns an XML object not the vale. I've tried nodeValue to no success. How do I obtain the actual text?

using the XML class - E4X? Don't say it's deprecated because this is Adobe scripting not pure javascript! — user3791372, Sep 17 '14 at 04:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '14 at 05:18

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This did the trick:

xml.article[0].title.toString()

answered Sep 17 '14 at 05:18

user3791372

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score -2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '14 at 04:46

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Its very simple, just searching the stackoverflow should have given you the result

var sXML = "<article><title>This is the title</title></article>";
$( document ).ready( function ()
{
    var xmlDoc = $( sXML );
    xmlDoc.filter( 'article' ).each( function ()
    {
        alert( $( this ).find( 'title' ).text() );
    } );
} );

answered Sep 17 '14 at 04:46

kvk95

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Ha ha, slight miss understanding, yep you find out the answer good. – kvk95 Sep 17 '14 at 12:12

obtaining xml node value in javascript

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