[jQuery] jquery xml help

[jQuery] jquery xml help


Hello again,
gosh this should be so easy yet i can't make it work. Here is what i'm trying to do: i have a data structure stored as an xml file.
I need to load this structure once at the start of the application.
I need a function to search through this data structure and return the corresponding value.
So far i fail miserably because i don't quite get the synchronous/asynchronous side of jlife.
Here is the code i came up with (you might have seen it in my other post, i'm fighting against it since this morning):
function findProjectAnchor(projectName, scape){
var thisDS = datascapeAnchorsXml.find('scape[title="' + scape + '"]');
var myVal = $("item:contains('" + project + "')", thisDS).attr('rel');
return myVal;
}
jQuery(function($){
$.get("projects/datascapes.xml", {}, function(xmlData, strStatus){
var datascapeAnchorsXml = $(xmlData);
});
/// this is how i call it:
UI.dsAnchor = findProjectAnchor(UI.item, UI.sortBy);
);
what's wrong with it ?
thank you for your time and assistance,
Alexandre Plennevaux