How to get elements by tag name in an XML?

[jesusemelendezm]

Hi

I have the following piece of XML and trying to parse it. I am using a client callable script include.

I need to get all the elements that are tagged with "<name>".

<l:cellphone>

<name>data_type</name>

<value>1X</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>sms</name>

<value>none</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>voice</name>

<value>none</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>wifi</name>

<value>wifi.net</value>

</l:cellphone>

I have tried the following 'getElementByTagName' but the script doesn't even run when that line is in. I have parsed other elements with getNodeText and that works but will only get the first element that is tagged with 'name'.

x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("name")[0];// when this is in script stop running at that line and no getting anything on logs.

XML DOM - Get Node Values

Thanks for your help

[ryanwarren]

Jesus,

I pulled this function from one of ServiceNow's script includes (so no credit goes to me) but I believe you can strip out some of it's parts and get it to work for what you need:

function UpdateXMLPayloadParser(xmlString) {
       var doc = new XMLDocument2();
       doc.parseXML(xmlString);
       var recordNode = doc.getNode('record_update').getFirstChild();


       // sys_documentation records have an extra node, 
       // also named sys_documentation, because why not
       if (recordNode.getNodeName() === 'sys_documentation')
               recordNode = recordNode.getFirstChild();


       var recordIterator = recordNode.getChildNodeIterator();


       var result = {},
               n;
       while (recordIterator.hasNext()) {
               n = recordIterator.next();
               result[n.getNodeName()] = n.getTextContent();
       }


       return result;
}

[jesusemelendezm]

I continue having same roadblock... in this script, I am able to get the childnodes. But in my case... I have all the nodes at same level, they are not child to another. They are all parent nodes with same name. I need to iterate in a way that I can query all the elements   where getNodeText (//name) and add them to an array.

just like in here below... all thats tag with name is what I need to access... there is no child nodes as each of them are separated acting as parent nodes.

<l:cellphone>

<name>data_type</name>

<value>1X</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>sms</name>

<value>none</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>voice</name>

<value>none</value>

</l:cellphone>

<l:cellphone>

<name>wifi</name>

<value>wifi.net</value>

</l:cellphone>

In HTML type document I can do this with a for loop as follows... I am looking to translate this to ServiceNow.

var doc = document.getElementsByTagName('name');
for (var i = 0; doc[i]; i++) {
    ...

        //here I can build the array containing all elements with tag 'name'
}

[jesusemelendezm]

ctomasi can provide me some help here?

[bernyalvarado]

Hi Jesus,

On a very quick first sight to this I believe you can solve this by using regex on your xml incoming string.

Thanks,

Berny