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I am trying to parse the below xml data by traversing through each node.

<example>
<name>BlueWhale</name>
<addr>101 Yesler Way, Suite 402</addr>
<city>Seattle</city>
<state>Washington</state>
</example>

Now I want to access each node without doing getElementsByTagName and print each NodeName & NodeValue in javascript, with the help of things like, rootElement,firstchild,nextSibling which i am not sure of.

I am trying the following manner

var txt = " <example>  <name>BlueWhale</name> <addr>101 Yesler Way, Suite 402</addr>  <city>Seattle</city>  <state>Washington</state>  </example> "
var domParser = new DOMParser();
xml = domParser.parseFromString(txt, "text/xml");
var el =xml.documentElement.nodeName;
console.log(el);

and print each var. Could anyone please help.

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what have you tried? what is your issue/question? –  ArsenMkrt Jun 13 at 10:59
    
Would you consider using library that would do parsing for you? –  LIUFA Jun 13 at 10:59
    
check this w3schools.com/xml/xml_parser.asp –  ArsenMkrt Jun 13 at 11:00
    
See related question stackoverflow.com/questions/17604071/parse-xml-using-javascript. –  user1929959 Jun 13 at 11:01
    
Thank you for the responses, however 1) I don prefer using jQuery 2) I do not prefer doing it by getElementsByTagName, as while implementing it, xml data received is dynamic hence i wish to access each of it by position and not by tag name. –  swati Jun 13 at 11:09
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You should consider using library that does that for you rather than doing it by hand. One of commonly used one's you can find here.

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if you xml is stored inside a string variable you can use jQuery.

var xml = "<example>...";

$(xml).children().each(function() {
    var tagName = this.tagName;
    var text = this.innerHtml
});
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