abcd wrote:

> <data>
> <chart1>
>     <option>aaa</option>
>     <option>bbb</option>
>     <option>ccc</option>
>     <option>ddd</option>
> </chart1>
> <chart2>
>     <option>eee</option>
>     <option>fff</option>
>     <option>ggg</option>
>     <option>hhh</option>
> </chart2>
> </data>
> 
> 
> I want to get the chart1 and chart2 options through parsing which should 
> work in all browsers....

You can use the W3C DOM Core with e.g.
   var chart1 = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName('chart1')[0];
   if (chart1 != null) {
     var options = chart1.getElementsByTagName('option');
     for (var i = 0, l = options.length; i < l; i++) {
       var option = options[i];
       // now use option here
     }
   }

If a browser supports parsing of XML documents into a tree model then 
W3C DOM Core is most likely to be supported.

Mozilla/Firefox also has its own XPath API but Opera 8 for instance does 
not support XPath, MSXML has a different API so for that simple data 
using the Core DOM getElementsByTagName seems like the easiest cross 
browser approach.
-- 

	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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