[jQuery] Re: simple Jquery Ajax XHR async request for XML and JSON please

[Jesse Skinner]

I am looking for some basic examples showing how to do simple XHR's
with both XML and JSON datatypes.  How do you parse the XML vars using
Jquery?  I am looking for simple examples that I can learn from.

Just use the $.ajax function, and set the dataType option like this:

$.ajax({
        url: 'ajax.php',
        dataType: 'xml',
        success: function(xml) {
                // do something with XML document with DOM functions
                var items = xml.getElementsByTagName('item');
        }
}

You can see the documentation of the $.ajax function here:

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.ajax#options

Jesse
www.thefutureoftheweb.com