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if your information is in XML i guess you could use xpath with something like

//os[@owner="microsoft"]/

the problem is that you would have to use a library or something to execute xpath queries in JS (http://www.w3schools.com/Xml/xml_parser.asp)... i think that MooTools can load an xml to the DOM and then use selectors like

$$('os[owner="microsoft"]')

I am not really sure about that one... and my last guess is that you could use regular expresions to do extract the lines

pleasedontbelong 2010-08-18 11:06:52

yes you are correct. all information is coming from xml only. and if possible I m ready to go ahead with jquery :)Thanks

dave 2010-08-18 11:12:16

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You can try for example to convert your xml data to DOM for example with respect of http://outwestmedia.com/jquery-plugins/xmldom/ jQuery plugin and use different jQuery selectors (see http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/) to choose or find only the elements of XML which you need.

Another way could be converting your XML data to the JSON data with respect of a solution which you could find in the internet (see http://www.thomasfrank.se/xml_to_json.html for example). The JSON data can be convertet to JavaScript objects with JSON.parse. Then you can easy iterate through the javascript object without or with jQuery.

Oleg 2010-08-18 11:09:18

Thanks Oleg, I m able to load the xml. And Even I m able to load the owners in one dropdown by grouping their name. so after the owner name is selected other results are suppose to be shown. Thanks

dave 2010-08-18 11:45:27

You can consider to load xml directly with respect of `jQuery.ajax` (see http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/) or `jQuery.get` (see http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/). Then you can easy to analyze the loaded xml data. In general I recommend you to use jQuery if you not yet do this already.

Oleg 2010-08-18 11:55:19

Thanks to all of you. The solution is I need to run a for loop (i=0;i<xyz.length;i++)and inside loop, i'll be checking for the values of i with if statement. and that'll filter the results.This Idea was suggested by one of the subscriber at stackoverflow Thanks all of you again

dave 2010-08-19 03:33:08

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