Thanks for your responses guys. James - I think I'm trying to do the opposite, my ajax call returns XML, and I want to treat it like plain HTML - but I'll look at your link and see if it helps, thanks!
Klaus - the API exists already and is used by other client technology, I don't have free reign to change it... and I shouldn't have to, everything works fine when i send XML without the mime type! I just need to ignore the XML mime type, and everything would be sorted!!! On Mar 31, 6:30 am, Klaus Hartl <klaus.ha...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am wondering why the server would not serve html in the first place. > > --Klaus > > On 30 Mrz., 15:37, the_woodsman <elwood.ca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > My ajax requests return xml, with the corresponding mime type. > > > I'm using $.get, as so: > > > $.get( > > $(this).attr('href'), > > function(data, textStatus) > > { > > > > $('#requestArea').val(data); > > }, > > 'html' //type, correct? > > ); > > > $('#requestArea').val(data) sets a text area to say [object > > XMLDocument] > > > So it seems my setting the type to html does nothing! > > > I've played around with this a bit, including using other ajax methods > > apart from .get(), with the same results. > > > Am I missing something here? > > > Thanks in advance!