Parse xml containing xml

by Michel Plungjan

HTML

<div id="container"></div>

CSS

td { border: 1px solid black }

JavaScript

var xmlString = '<list><Response><cfgId>280</cfgId><recommendations>&lt;Rule&gt;&lt;name&gt;simple rule&lt;/name&gt;&lt;category&gt;none&lt;/category&gt;&lt;severity&gt;warning&lt;/severity&gt;&lt;ruleEvalResult&gt;true&lt;/ruleEvalResult&gt;&lt;actionResult&gt; Current value of maxfilesperproc is  32 increase it to 1024&lt;/actionResult&gt;&lt;/Rule&gt;</recommendations></Response></list>';
var xmlDocument = $.parseXML(xmlString);
var $xml = $(xmlDocument);


var cfgid = 280;
var htmlTable = $('<table></table>');

$xml.find('Response').each(function() {
  var cid = $(this).find('cfgId').text();
  if (cid == cfgid) {
    // Now grab the entitiy string
    var newXmlString = $(this).find('recommendations').text();
    // Convert the entities to HTML and return a jQuery object
    var newXml = $("<div/>").html(newXmlString);

    // NOW we can get at the inner XML
    var ruleseverity = $(newXml).find('severity').text();
    if (ruleseverity == "warning") {
      var rulename = $(newXml).find('name').text();
      var rulecategory = $(newXml).find('category').text();
      var ruleresult = $(newXml).find('ruleEvalResult').text();
      var ruleactionresult = $(newXml).find('actionResult').text();
      htmlTable.append('<tr><td>RuleName:' + rulename + '</td><td>RuleResult: ' + ruleactionresult + '</td></tr>');
    }
  }
});
$("#container").append(htmlTable);