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BigBison
October 16th, 2007, 01:27
jQuery and XML

By Uche Ogbuji
October 15, 2007

Whether you're an admirer of AJAX, or one who can't stand all the hype, if you're a web developer you must admit that it's proven very useful in driving explosive competition among JavaScript utility libraries. And the embarrassment of riches keeps on growing. jQuery emerged a couple of years ago to great acclaim for its performance, elegant design, and handy features, and now it's one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks.

jQuery offers a lot of facilities, but it's best known for offering a cross-browser model for accessing and manipulating web page elements that means you don't have to deal with the endless pain of DOM. jQuery can be used for XML processing on the Web as well as HTML processing, and in this article I show some examples of this use. In developing code examples for this article I downloaded the uncompressed bundle of jQuery 1.2.1 and tested on Firefox 2.0.0.7.

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