Hi there,

I'm trying to parse a larger XML file  with jQuery. Unfortunately it takes a little bit longer (cca 1.5sec). Are there better ways too speed-up the parsing part? I really need some advice. THX

• the XML is dynamically created (REST web service on the app. server impemented)
• I have a basic ajax (GET) request and on success it calls the ParseXML function.
• Example structure of the XML is under the parseXML function (note: there are about 1500 <contact> nodes

1. function parseXML(xml)
   {
   
   
2.     var jxd = $(xml);
       if(!jxd) return "";   
   
   
3. 
   
4.     jxd.find('contact').each(function() {
          
   
   
5.         var $node = $(this);    // is this good practice?
           var type = $node.find('T_TYPE').text();
           var Fname = $node.find('T_FIRSTNAME').text()+' ';
           var Lname = $node.find('T_LASTNAME').text()+'</a>';   
           var name = Fname+Lname;
           var idk = $node.find('T_ID').text();
           var output = '<a href="contact_detail.html?id='+idk+'">'+name+'<br />';
           var org = $node.find('T_ORGANIZATIONNAME').text() + '<br />';
        
           if (type == '1') {        
                   $("<li />")
                       .addClass("style1")
                       .html(output)
                       .appendTo('ul');
               }
           else {   //type == 2    
                   $("<li />")
                       .addClass("style2")
                       .html(org)
                       .appendTo('ul');
               }
        }); 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. }
   

As you see, there is a lot of variable declarations. Are they slowing me down??
I have seen some examples on the Web, people where using keywords like: children, child, nodes, children[0], some where putting things in Arrays[...]. .. But haven't found any good docs that explaines them.

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <RESPONSE xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://0.0.0.0:9999/rest/schemas/contacts_response.xsd">
     <PARAMETERS>
       <Contacts>
         <contact url="http://0.0.0.0:9999/rest/contact/1">
           <T_ID>1</T_ID>
           <T_LASTNAME>Fox</T_LASTNAME>
           <T_FIRSTNAME>Fire</T_FIRSTNAME>
           <T_ORGANIZATIONNAME>Mozilla</T_ORGANIZATIONNAME>
           <T_TYPE>1</T_TYPE>
           <T_NAME>Fire Fox, Mozilla</T_NAME>
         </contact>
        ...
        ...
         <contact url="http://0.0.0.0:9999/rest/contact/14214">
           <T_ID>14214</BCNT_ID>
           <T_LASTNAME>Something</T_LASTNAME>
           <T_FIRSTNAME>Something</T_FIRSTNAME>
           <T_ORGANIZATIONNAME>In the month of May</T_ORGANIZATIONNAME>
           <T_TYPE>1</T_TYPE>
           <T_NAME>Something something, In the month of May</T_NAME>
         </contact>
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Summary:

Extract every: FirstName, LastName. Add a new <li> to the <ul> (wich is in the body) and insert the extracted data. Basically, creating DOM elements with dynamic data.

If a type == 2 then only print organization name.

that's all.