How to parse this XML in Titanium>

Question

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ns1:getCountriesResponse xmlns:ns1="SoapQrcode">
      <return SOAP-ENC:arrayType=":[8]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
        <item xsi:type="xsd:string">
          China
        </item>
        <item xsi:type="xsd:string">
          France
        </item>
     </return>
    </ns1:getCountriesResponse>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

I am using this XML format, how can I get the names of the countries from this with Titanium?

Answer 1

It would be a kind gesture to at least attempt to parse the XML, or at least show you know where the DOCS are before asking for help. But thankfully this is very straightforward with Titanium, here is an example:

// Load file containing XML from resources directory
var xmlFile = Ti.Filesystem.getFile('countries.xml');

// Get contents(as blob) from file
var contents = xmlFile.read();

// Turn contents into a XMLDomDocument for parsing (get string from blob first)
var xmlDomDoc = Ti.XML.parseString(contents.text);

// Get all the item tags and their contents
var allItemTags = xmlDomDoc.getElementsByTagName('item');

// Loop over them and grab the text contents and print
for (var i = 0; i < allItemTags.length; i++) {
    var countryName = allItemTags.item(i).textContent;
    Ti.API.info(countryName);
}

A cursory examination of the link I provided would have showed you the API on how do this.