In my php code, I am retrieving json data as below. <?php $url = "http://dbpedia.org/data/Los_Angeles.json"; $data = file_get_contents($url); echo $data; ?> The javascript code consumes this json data returned from php and gets the json object as below. var doc = eval('(' + request.responseText + ')'); How to retrieve the following json data using dot notations. The keys contain URLs. "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/populationTotal" : [ { "type" : "literal", "value" : 3792621 , "datatype" : "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer" } ] , "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/PopulatedPlace/areaTotal" : [ { "type" : "literal", "value" : "1301.9688931491348" , "datatype" : "http://dbpedia.org/datatype/squareKilometre" }