populate drop down with jquery in mobile app

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I am new to mobile development and trying to populate drop down list with country_name
any help would be appreciated.

This is my xml data returned from web services

XML

<NewDataSet>
<script/>
<Table>
<detail>
<country country_sk="2" currency_sk="165" country_name="Afghanistan" country_telecom_code="93  " country_code="AF" /><country country_sk="5" currency_sk="166" country_name="Albania" country_telecom_code="355 " country_code="AL" /><country country_sk="62" currency_sk="167" country_name="Algeria" country_telecom_code="213  " country_code="DZ" /><country country_sk="11" currency_sk="70" country_name="American Samoa" country_telecom_code="1684  " country_code="AS" /><country country_sk="6" currency_sk="213" country_name="Andorra" country_telecom_code="376  " country_code="AD" /><country country_sk="3" currency_sk="169" country_name="Angola" country_telecom_code="244  " country_code="AO" /><country country_sk="4" currency_sk="211" country_name="Anguilla" country_telecom_code="1264  " country_code="AI" />


I am trying to populate country_name in drop down list
with following code but its not working.

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "http://www.xyz.mobwebservice.asmx/countryList",
dataType: "xml",
success: function(xml) {
				var select = $('#mySelect'); 
                 $(xml).find('country').each(function(){
                     var id_text = $(this).attr('country_sk')
                     var name_text = $(this).find('country_name').text()

                     var option = $("<option>" + name + "</option>"); 
                         option.attr("value", value); 
                         select.append(option);
                 }); //close each(
                 	select.children(":first").text("please make a selection").attr("selected", true);
             } //close $.ajax
}); 
}); 
</script>
</head>
<body> 
    <form id="form1"> 
      <select id="mySelect"> 
              <option>loading</option> 
      </select> 
    </form> 
</body>
</html>

help me its very urgent

Posted 22-May-13 19:48pm

Avinash8

Updated 22-May-13 19:49pm

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