From now jqGrid can accept XML and JSON data with arbitrary structure. In this release we introduce a xmlReader and jsonReader.
This way we can analyze and display a wide range of data structures. More information will be
available in the upcoming documentation.
View the book.xml file

HTML ... <table id="list19" class="scroll" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"></table> <script src="xmlmap.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> Java Scrpt code ... jQuery("#list19").jqGrid({ url: 'books.xml', datatype: "xml", colNames:["Author","Title", "Price", "Published Date"], colModel:[ {name:"Author",index:"Author", width:120, xmlmap:"ItemAttributes>Author"}, {name:"Title",index:"Title", width:180,xmlmap:"ItemAttributes>Title"}, {name:"Price",index:"Manufacturer", width:100, align:"right",xmlmap:"ItemAttributes>Price", sorttype:"float"}, {name:"DatePub",index:"ProductGroup", width:130,xmlmap:"ItemAttributes>DatePub",sorttype:"date"} ], height:250, rowNum:10, rowList:[10,20,30], imgpath: gridimgpath, viewrecords: true, loadonce: true, xmlReader: { root : "Items", row: "Item", repeatitems: false, id: "ASIN" }, caption: "XML Mapping example" });