XML jquery shortcuts

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Published on 2010-04-26T17:01:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 17:03 UTC
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I am writing a bit of code that appends my site nav with and extra ul that gives a description about where that link takes you. I need to use our CMS's built in Nav structure so appending via jQuery was the best solution, and XML makes the data easier to manage. My question is this: is there a more efficient way to write out the js? What I have so far is this:

$(document).ready(function()
{
 $.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  url: "/js/sitenav.xml",
  dataType: "xml",
  success: function  parseXml(xml) {
  // WORK
   $(xml).find("CaseStudies").each(function()
    {
     $("li#case_studies").append('<ul><li>' + $(this).find("NavImage").text() + $(this).find("NavHeader").text() + $(this).find("NavDescription").text() + $(this).find("NavLink").text()  + "</li></ul>");
    });
   };
 });
});

and the xml structure resembles this:

<SiteNav>
 <Work>
        <CaseStudies>
            <NavImage></NavImage>
         <NavHeader></NavHeader>
         <NavDescription></NavDescription>
         <NavLink></NavLink>
        </CaseStudies>
    </Work>
</SiteNav>

I'm happy with my xml structure, but is there a more compact/efficient method of writing out the code for the jqeury? Every li in the nav has a unique id as well in case that helps...

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