Render xmlhttp response in new window with text/xml content type

[Nicole.Winfrey]

Hi,

At the moment, I'm displaying the XML HTTP response text using
javascript alert (see below).
I'm trying to render XML HTTP response in a new window and the output
of the window needs to be of content type text/xml (i.e. the XML
output where you can expand/contact the tags in browser).
Is there anyway to render the XML? Thanks....

// Post XML via AJAX.
xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://localhost/processRequest", true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
{
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
}
}
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")
xmlhttp.send(xmlRequest);

[Martin Honnen]

Ni************@gmail.com wrote:

At the moment, I'm displaying the XML HTTP response text using
javascript alert (see below).
I'm trying to render XML HTTP response in a new window and the output
of the window needs to be of content type text/xml (i.e. the XML
output where you can expand/contact the tags in browser).
Is there anyway to render the XML? Thanks....

// Post XML via AJAX.
xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://localhost/processRequest", true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
{
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);

With Mozilla you should be able to do
window.open('data:text/xml,' + xmlhttp.responseText)
but IE does not support data URLs.
--

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

[-Lost]

Response to Ni************@gmail.com:

At the moment, I'm displaying the XML HTTP response text using
javascript alert (see below).
I'm trying to render XML HTTP response in a new window and the
output of the window needs to be of content type text/xml (i.e.
the XML output where you can expand/contact the tags in browser).
Is there anyway to render the XML? Thanks....

// Post XML via AJAX.
xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://localhost/processRequest",
true); xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4)
{
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
}
}
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml")
xmlhttp.send(xmlRequest);

Use the responseXML property instead of responseText -- assuming
your server is sending the correct headers for the information
retrieved.

Since there are limitations with XML and Internet Explorer:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archi...p_notes_r.html
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms757055.aspx

....may be of some help. I've no clue if there has been any
fundamental changes in how Internet Explorer handles XML in version
7.

http://www.w3schools.com/php/ajax_responsexml.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_ajax_responsexml.asp

....offers a small example of what can be done with the resulting
XML.

I also assume this depends greatly on what you are trying to do with
the XML -- process it versus actually rendering it for display as is
or styling it.

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