jQuery convert HTML Table to XML

Question

I am retrieving HTML from a remote host with the following jQuery code

    var loadUrl = \"URL.html\"; 
        $(\"#result\")
        .html(ajax_load)
        .load(         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

$(function(){
    var xml = "";
    $('tr:not(:first)').each(function(i, tr){
        $tr = $(tr);
        var index = $.trim($tr.find('td:first').text());
        xml += '';
        $tr.find('td:not(:first)').each(function(j, td){
            xml += '';
            xml += $.trim($(td).text());
            xml += '';
        });
        xml += '';
    });
    alert(xml);
});

Example here.

If you'd be using and you could still simplify it slightly further.