If your httpd handling XML files right? Try to access the file using firefox or other browser directly and see if it shows up as XML. If not your might have a problem with your server Content-type headers.
Cheers On Mar 25, 8:27 am, dizzyjay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When creating an Ajax.Request('/path.xml') i don't get responseXML. > I'm confused what I am doing wrong. If i change the response variable > and dump responseText, it shows the file, it just doesn't recognize it > as xml. > > function xml(url){ > new Ajax.Request(url, { > method: 'post', parameters:'resultSet=simcall', > onSuccess:parseResponse, > onFailure:function(xhrResponse){alert('nope');} > });} > > var parseResponse= function(xhrResponse){ > var response=xhrResponse.responseXML; > var paramList= response.getElementByTagName('lastname'); > alert(paramList[0].firstChild.nodeValue); > > } > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > <employees> > > <employee id="123456"> > <lastname>Smith</lastname> > <firstname>Edward</firstname> > <phone>(415) 333-0235 </phone> > > <username>esmith</username> > </employee> > </employees> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---