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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><title>jQuery UI Autocomplete - XML data parsed once</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css"><script src="../../jquery-1.4.2.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.position.js"></script><script src="../../ui/jquery.ui.autocomplete.js"></script><link rel="stylesheet" href="../demos.css"><style>.ui-autocomplete-loading { background: white url('images/ui-anim_basic_16x16.gif') right center no-repeat; }</style><script>$(function() {function log( message ) {$( "<div/>" ).text( message ).prependTo( "#log" );$( "#log" ).attr( "scrollTop", 0 );}$.ajax({url: "london.xml",dataType: "xml",success: function( xmlResponse ) {var data = $( "geoname", xmlResponse ).map(function() {return {value: $( "name", this ).text() + ", " +( $.trim( $( "countryName", this ).text() ) || "(unknown country)" ),id: $( "geonameId", this ).text()};}).get();$( "#birds" ).autocomplete({source: data,minLength: 0,select: function( event, ui ) {log( ui.item ?"Selected: " + ui.item.value + ", geonameId: " + ui.item.id :"Nothing selected, input was " + this.value );}});}});});</script></head><body><div class="demo"><div class="ui-widget"><label for="birds">London matches: </label><input id="birds" /></div><div class="ui-widget" style="margin-top:2em; font-family:Arial">Result:<div id="log" style="height: 200px; width: 300px; overflow: auto;" class="ui-widget-content"></div></div></div><!-- End demo --><div class="demo-description"><p>This demo shows how to retrieve some XML data, parse it using jQuery's methods, then provide it to the autocomplete as the datasource.</p><p>This should also serve as a reference on how to parse a remote XML datasource - the parsing would just happen for each request within the source-callback.</p></div><!-- End demo-description --></body></html>