What is the best practice for parsing remote content with jQuery?

Question

Following a jQuery ajax call to retrieve an entire XHTML document, what is the best way to select specific elements from the resulting string? Perhaps there is a library or

Answer 1

If you wanted to find the value of specifically named fields (i.e. the inputs in a form) something like this would find them for you:

var fields = ["firstname","surname", ...."foo"];

function findFields(form, fields) {
  var form = $(form);
  fields.forEach(function(field) {
    var val = form.find("[name="+field+"]").val();
    ....