Unfortunately JS and jQuery, past the necessities has never been much of my strong point and I've hit a bit of a snag attempting to output the XML produced from the typical "REST service I made earlier", having tried a number of solutions I'm at my wits end...

A sample data set and example JS is below, though this would typically be returned based on the provided url, it seems any attempt to use a url or external XML file fail.

 

 

    $(document).ready(function()  
      {  
        $.get('http://localdev/books/course/CC150/xml', function(d){  
        $('body').append('<h1> Recommended Web Development Books </h1>');  
        $('body').append('<dl>');  
        $(d).find('book').each(function(){  
            var $book = $(this); 
			var id = $book.attr("id"); 
            var title = $book.attr("title");  
			var isbn = $book.attr("isbn");
			var borrowedcount = $book.attr("borrowedcount");
            var html = '<dd><p> ' + id + '</p>' ; 
			 html += '<p> ' + title + '</p>' ;  
			 html += '<p> ' + isbn + '</p>' ;  
			 html += '<p> ' + borrowedcount + '</p>' ;  
            html += '</dd>';  
            $('dl').append($(html));  
            $('.loadingPic').fadeOut(1400);  
        });  
    });  
});  

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<results>
  <course>CC150</course>
  <books>
    <book id="370955" title="Schaum's outline of UML" isbn="77096738" borrowedcount="212"/>
    <book id="422148" title="Human-computer interaction" isbn="130461091" borrowedcount="210"/>
    <book id="228015" title="Computer networks" isbn="133942481" borrowedcount="197"/>
     ..........
    </books>
</results>

Edited February 26, 201313 yr by CSN-UK

Bit of an update for the benefit of those whom may in future experience a similar issue, It was DNS related, the localhost (LAMP/WAMP) server could not be found by $.get as it appeared to be querying the network DNS rather than considering the local DNS /localhost, thus returning a 404 file not found, works perfectly in a live environment however with the appropriate public URLs.

Edited February 26, 201313 yr by CSN-UK