jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

 Hi guys,

Is there a way to get the XML parsed data as an array of objects that I could use in different functions ? I mean I'm assuming that jgrid has a parser for the XML data returned in a XML file, once this data is parsed I think it creates some type of local dataset to be used by the grid. I was thinking to have a function on the loadComplete or gridComplete events to get the data.

I've looked everywhere documentation and forums and did some debugging but couldn't find a way to do it. I've found a thread in the forum that makes me believe this works when you have a JSON data source, but not a XML one. In this post (http://www.trirand.com/blog/?p.....38;ret=all) it seems that a method called getReturnedDataItem would give me the data but it doesn't seem to work with my grid using a XML datasource

my grid uses a XML datasource like this...

I want to store the dataset in a variable locally so I can do some manipulations on the client side and bind the data again to the grid, that could be useful for something like a client-side filter without having to do several requests to the server.

Any ideas on how this can be accomplished

thanks,