XMLHttpRequest responseXML empty

[joker]

Thanks in Advance.

I'm trying to find out why my responseXML is empty when the
Content-Type for my request is "text/xml". I'm calling into a servlet
from a web page on the same domain returning a simple xml stream, but
it only shows up under responseText? I'm using IE 6.0.

function loadXMLDoc() {
alert("running loadXMLDoc");
var url2 =
"/servlet/com.edwardjones.cats.holding.AcctHoldingController Servlet?number=31791512&type=1&branch=05465&irNo=5 64512";
var url =
"/servlet/com.edwardjones.apwindow.util.APTestXMLControllerS ervlet";
alert("Calling URL:\n"+url);
var request;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // branch for native XMLHttpRequest
object
request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = processRequestChange;
request.open("GET", url, true);
request.send(null);
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // branch for IE/Windows ActiveX
version
request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
if (request) {
request.onreadystatechange = processRequestChange;
request.open("GET", url, true);
request.send();
}
}

function processRequestChange() {
if(request.readyState == 4) {
if (request.status == 200) {
alert ("headers:"+request.getAllResponseHeaders());
var xmlDoc = request.responseXML;
var textDoc = request.responseText;
alert("Status:"+request.status+"\nText
Length:"+textDoc.length+"\nText:"+textDoc+
"\nXML Length:"+xmlDoc.length+"\nXML:"+xmlDoc);

} else {
alert("There was a problem retrieveing the XML
data:\n"+request.statusText);
}
}
}
}

Here's the XML I'm returning and get's printed by the alert --
<?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 ?>
<response>
<text>my text</text>
</response>

MM

[Ivo]

"joker" wrote

I'm trying to find out why my responseXML is empty when the
Content-Type for my request is "text/xml". I'm calling into a servlet
from a web page on the same domain returning a simple xml stream, but
it only shows up under responseText? I'm using IE 6.0. <snip> var xmlDoc = request.responseXML;
var textDoc = request.responseText;
alert("Status:"+request.status+"\nText
Length:"+textDoc.length+"\nText:"+textDoc+
"\nXML Length:"+xmlDoc.length+"\nXML:"+xmlDoc);

<more snip>

Try the xml property of the request.responseXML, like so:

var xmlDoc = request.responseXML.xml;

hth
ivo
http://4umi.com/web/javascript/xmlhttp.htm

[Martin Honnen]

joker wrote:

Here's the XML I'm returning and get's printed by the alert --
<?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1 ?>

^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^

That is not well-formed, it needs to be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
(or it could use single quotes but quotes are needed)
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[joker]

Ivo - that worked, Thanks!

Can you explain why? All of the examples I've found never used this
property.

mm