Jquery xml parse question

I have an xml开发者_StackOverflow社区 which contains reference to internal vocabulary

How can I use jquery to resolve this reference and parse successfully..

XML

<something>
<element reference="../../../../test"/>
</something>

Any ideas would be much appreciated..

Using the latest version of jQuery (1.5.1), yes.

var XML = '<something><element reference="../../../../test"/></something>';
var xmlDoc = $( $.parseXML(XML) );

//Alerts out "../../../../test"
alert( xmlDoc.find("element").attr("reference") );

jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/nKAGP/

You need:

1. to download the referenced document,
2. to parse this document.

You may perform an AJAX request with jQuery, which will do both steps:

$.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  url: "URL of the document (possibly relative)",
  dataType: "xml",
  success: function(xml) {
    $(xml). ...  // now you may use jQuery functions to explore the document
  }
}

EDIT: The URL document may be retrieved from your first XML document using motionman95's answer. Then you pass it to the above and you get the referenced XML document.