What or which plugin in jquery shall i use to populate a html table with a xml file content?

Question

I have a requirement to display data from a xml file from server (path to file something like files/client.xml) into a html table or datagrid, which plugin or rathe

Answer 1

Basically, you can read the XML DOM just as you read the HTML DOM, using jQuery selectors. So in your XML example, if you want to do something specific with each <file> element - say, add the contents of it's mount attribute to an unordered list, you could do something like this:

$(xml).('file').children().each(function() {
    var fileElem = this; // save the instance for closure
    $('ul#theList').append($('<li>').text(fileElem.attr('mount'));
});

You can get the XML contents with AJAX, using jQuery's built-in AJAX API:

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "your.xml",
    dataType: "xml",
    success: function(xml) {
        // Insert the previous code snippet here
    }
});

I got all of this from this tutorial, so it might be helpful for you too. Note: This was the very first hit on Google for "jquery xml"...

Answer 2

jquery.dataTables is good as long as you have control over the contents of the xml file. Their formatting requirements are rather strict.

Answer 3

You probably want to use XSLT - it will let you take the XML response and directly apply an XSL transform, which can then be inserted into the DOM.