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Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box
Building on the post Reading XML with jQuery, I have modified the success function to parse the XML data and load it into a drop-down box. You can get the demo files from Reading XML with jQuery here. Once you download and unzip the demo files, open the index.html in your favorite editor. Then remove all the HTML between the body tag and also all the jQuery in the success function. I also changed the page title to “Using jQuery and XML to Populate a Drop-Down Box Demo.” ( more )