That's a good point, but in my case I will stick with regex. Another idea is to use multiple top html elements (divs for example) and then query for values of div you want.
On Dec 1, 6:11 pm, "Andy Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're using a 3rd party JSON library, then you'd just pass in whatever > language construct you've got and let the library encode for you. > > andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of me-and-jQuery > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:04 AM > To: jQuery (English) > Subject: [jQuery] Ajax to return more values > > Ho-ho-ho. > > I wonder what is the best practice if I want to get 2 or three values back > to function with ajax. The last value would be lots of html code and first > two kind of state values (number or short string). I don't like jSON a lot, > since you need to return one-line response and you must be careful with a > shape (" and }). Second option is having a regex to fetch first two values > and all remaining is a third value. > > And what do you think is the best solution here? > > Happy December, > me-and-jQuery