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I just saw that version 1.8.4 is the latest stable download but I haven't heard or seen any posts about what the changes are (or what the changes were in 1.8.3). Anyone that can fill me in?

It's not really traversal, more like node selector I guess. It might not have anything to do with JQuery but if I can use it to achieve what I want it doesn't matter. I have an object that I create from JSON that looks like:

{
    "totalUniversities" : "2",
    "universities" : {
        "MIT" : {
            "key" : "",
            "totalPlaces" : "12",
            "totalPlacesSpring" : "6",
            "totalPlacesAutumn" : "6",
            "totalSubjects" : "2",
            "subjects" : [
                {
                    "name" : "Agricultural Economics",
                    "placesSpring" : "3",
                    "placesAutumn" : "3"
                },
                {
                    "name" : "Agricultural Economics",
                    "placesSpring" : "3",
                    "placesAutumn" : "3"
                }
            ]
        },
        "Oxford" : {
            "key" : "",
            "totalPlaces" : "12",
            "totalPlacesSpring" : "6",
            "totalPlacesAutumn" : "6",
            "totalSubjects" : "2",
            "subjects" : [
                {
                    "name" : "Agricultural Economics",
                    "placesSpring" : "3",
                    "placesAutumn" : "3"
                },
                {
                    "name" : "Agricultural Economics",
                    "placesSpring" : "3",
                    "placesAutumn" : "3"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

What I want to do now is to be able to select the "Oxford" university and loop through the subjects (which is easy by doing "myObj.universities.Oxford"). What I want to do is to be able to search for that node with a function, something like:

1. getSubjects : function(uniname){
2. var uniObj = myObj.universities;
3. var myUniObj = uniObj.uniname....
4. }

Of course, this won't work unless I put the string together and do an eval on it but there has to be some other way of doing it right? Having a brain fart...

If someone has a better suggestion for my obj structure I'm all ears, it's easy to alter if it would simplify things.