Help with JQuery XML

Question

I found this code but its not working... any suggestions the parsexml is never being called

$(document).ready(function(){
  $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "menuitems.xml",
    dataType: "xml",
    success: parseXml
  });
    // fourth example
    $("#black").treeview({
        persist: "location",
        collapsed: true
    });

});

var strMenu = "";
function parseXml(xml)

{
    alert();
  $(xml).find("Item").each(function()
  {
      if ($("#output").append($(this).attr("type") == "topic")) {
        strMenu += "<li><span>" + $("#output").append($(this).attr("name")) + "</span>";
      } else if ($("#output").append($(this).attr("type") == "link")) {
        strMenu += "<li><a href='" + $("#output").append($(this).attr("file")) + "'>" + $("#output").append($(this).attr("name")) + "</a></li>";
      }
  });
alert(strMenu); 
}

Answer 1

Try changing the line:

success: parseXml

to

success: parseXml(data)

Answer 2

does menuitems.xml exist? Is the path correct?

Answer 3

Changed

  $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "menuitems.xml",
    dataType: "xml",
    success: parseXml
  });

to

 $.ajax({ 
        type: "GET",
        url: "menuitems.xml",
        success: function(xml){
          parseXml(xml);
        }
      });

and now it works