AJAX Component and XML

rwadkins

Last night I was putting together an app downloading the NYC MTA Service Status XML file from http://mta.info/status/serviceStatus.txt. I set handleAs in the AJAX component to XML, but the inResponse argument to my response callback kept coming in empty. When I changed the handleAs to text or json, I'd get a string containing the XML (which I can handle).

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong with my call. Any advice?

unwiredben

The XML handler just means that responseXML gets returned to you. That only gets set if the XML is well-formed and it's returned with MIME type text/xml. It looks like the MTA is returning type text/plain, so that would prevent that mechanism from working.

I'd request as text then pass it into the JS XML engine manually.

rwadkins

thanks, ben, I knew seeing ".txt" on the url would be a sign.