Parsing of <link> tag text is incorrect when a url is specified

Reported by:	simons.mail@gmail.com	Owned by:
Priority:	low	Milestone:	1.next
Component:	core	Version:	1.4.4
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

When Parsing RSS the following does not return the URL as expected. It returns an empty string.

var text = $('<channel><title>Hello world</title><link>http://www.google.com</link></channel>').find('link').text();

I've tested it in firefox and chrome.

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Changed February 01, 2011 06:45AM UTC by danheberden comment:1

component:	unfiled → core
keywords:	→ needsdocs
resolution:	→ invalid
status:	new → closed

That converts the string into an actual dom node - link tags, as you're probably already aware, don't ever contain html; they are self terminating tags.

If you are using this in an ajax request, simply use the "xml" dataType option.

If you need to parse your text, use jQuery.parseXML

var xmlDoc = jQuery.parseXML( "<channel><title>Hello world</title><link> http://www.google.com</link></channel>" ),
    $xml = $( xmlDoc );

console.log( $xml.find('link').text() );

http://jsfiddle.net/danheberden/H9K3Z/

Next time, please be sure to submit a jsfiddle.net test case so we can easily jump into your problem.

Changed February 01, 2011 11:38AM UTC by jitter comment:2

priority:	undecided → low

Changed February 01, 2011 03:43PM UTC by danheberden comment:3

keywords:	needsdocs

Changed February 01, 2011 03:43PM UTC by danheberden comment:4

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML

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