Lets say I have a page on the same domain that I put inside an iframe. In the iframe, I have added data to an element, something like this:
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I have never tried this, but I'm pretty certain you need to talk to the iframe's $
object instead of your document's one to access that object's internal data storage. Not 100% sure how to do that - maybe something like
$('#frame').contents().jQuery.find("#data").data("test")
(wild guess)
What would work for sure is a function inside the iframe document that fetches the data, and returns it to you. But that's much less elegant than fetching it directly, of course.