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    copied!<p>i want to populate a xml with jquery. i got the following code:</p> <p>jquery:</p> <pre><code> $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "GHworkerType.xml", dataType: "xml", success: function (xml) { $(xml).find('type').each(function () { var id = $(this).attr('id'); var name = $(this).find('name').text(); var rate = $(this).find('rate').text(); $('&lt;div id="link_' + id + '"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;').html('&lt;a href="' + name + '"&gt;' + type + '&lt;/a&gt;').appendTo('#WorkerTypeDropDownList'); }); } }); </code></pre> <p>xml:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt; &lt;worker&gt; &lt;type id=0&gt; &lt;name&gt;Fitter, mechanical or electrician&lt;/name&gt; &lt;rate&gt;75&lt;/rate&gt; &lt;/type&gt; &lt;/worker&gt; </code></pre> <p>html:</p> <pre><code>&lt;select id="WorkerTypeDropDownList"&gt; &lt;option&gt;loading&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>how can i populate this xml now? i want the user to select one of the items and pass the value(rate) to a variable to my codebehind (C#). </p> <p>i also want to populate this xml to another dropdownlist. but in this case i want to change the rate. how can i get this to work?</p> <p>greetz</p> <p>Tobi</p> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>this is the code which is running:</p> <p>js:</p> <pre><code>$.ajax({ type: "GET", url: "GHworkerType.xml", dataType: "xml", success: function (xml) { var select = $('#comboWorkerType'); $(xml).find('type').each(function () { type = $(this).find('type').text(); select.append("" + type + ""); id = $(this).attr('id'); name = $(this).find('name').text(); rate = $(this).find('rate').text(); // alert(rate); $('&lt;option&gt;' + name + '&lt;/option&gt;').html('&lt;option' + type + '"&gt;' + name + '&lt;/option&gt;').appendTo('#comboWorkerType'); }); // alert($('#comboWorkerType option:selected').text()); select.children(":first").text("Select worker type").attr("selected", true); } </code></pre> <p>xml:</p> <pre><code>&lt;type&gt; &lt;name&gt;Fitter, mechanical or electrician&lt;/name&gt; &lt;rate&gt;75&lt;/rate&gt; &lt;/type&gt; </code></pre> <p>html:</p> <pre><code>&lt;select id="comboWorkerType" &gt; &lt;option&gt;Select worker type&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; </code></pre> <p>but i want to get the rate of the selected item to my codebehind. </p> <p>how can i get this to run?</p> <p>greetz</p> <p>tobi</p>
 

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