Parsing XML with javascript

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Hi there, am currently trying to implement some proof of concept ajax code in my website at the moment and am struggling with some of the parsing of the xml.

E.g., I have the following XML file:

<results>
<client>
<forename>Jim</forename>
<surname>Smith</surname>
<number>1234</number>
</client>
<client>
<forename>Susan</forename>
<surname>Sanders</surname>
<number>984</number>
</client>
<client>
<forename>Henry</forename>
<surname>Cooper</surname>
<number>982</number>
</client>
</results>

These are the results of an embeded search. We have the code to generate the XML file already in the site and what I want to do is parse that xml file, run through each client and pull out the elements individually by name. I can get the code to work to pull out all of the elements sequentially, but I cant work out how to access each client in turn and access the attributes by name.

The following will pull all of them out:


var output='';
var clients = xmlObj.getElementsByTagName('client');
for (i=0;i<clients.length;i++) {
output += '<h1>Client</h1>';
for (j=0;j<clients.childNodes.length;j++) {
if (clients.childNodes[j].nodeType != 1) continue;
output += clients.childNodes[j].firstChild.nodeValue + '<br>';
}
}


But what I want to do is something along the lines of:


for (i=0;i<clients.length;i++) {
output += '<h1>Client</h1>';
output += clients.<ACCESS THE ELEMENT NAMED>('forename').value;
}


Hope that makes sense, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have tried using getElementByTag, getAttribute and some others but it says they arent functions of the clients and I am kind of guessing as I havent been able to find a tutorial that does what I want.

Thanks