JQuery xml/xhtml processing

Question

Using JQuery I am sending an Ajax GET to a web server. The web server is replying with an xml block like this;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ajax-response>
  <response>
     some response here
  </response>
  <response>
     some response here
  </response>
</ajax-response>

The jQuery get looks like this;

jQuery.get(name,parms,function(data){xmlProcess(data);});

The xmlProcess funcion like this;

function xmlProcess(data){  
    jQuery('response',data).each(function(i){
        t = ?what?; 
    });  
}  

My problem is that the stuff being sent back from the server, in the "some response here" part is xhtml. So I can access it as xml using stuff like

t = jQuery(this).find("div").attr("id");

But what I really want is the "some response here" part as text, ie as a string. So the string can contain, for example;

<div id"bob">hello</div>

Answer 1

If you want it as text, then write the XML so that it is text.

i.e. use < for < and so on.

Answer 2

If I'm understanding the question correctly, you can convert the response object to a string like this:

jQuery.get(name,parms,function(data){
    //for IE 
    if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        var string = data.xml;
        alert(string);
    }
    // code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
    else {
       var string = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(data);
       alert(string);
    }
});

Answer 3

Every Element should have an "innerHTML" property. If that doesn't work, try the toString() method on the element.

Answer 4

This can actually be done very simply, the .text() method of jquery retrieves everything between the selected tag as a string, which seems to be what you want: t = $(this).text(); alert(t); you shouldn't have to mess around replacing < with &lt e.t.c...

Have fun, good luck, let me know if you get good results!