Question

I am trying to localize my strings by creating an xml file for each language then using ajax get like so.

var text = new Object();
$.ajax({
        async: false,
        type: 'GET',
        url: 'english.xml',
        dataType: "xml",
        error: function(xhr, status, error) {
              console.log("Lets see the error...");
              console.log(xhr.responseText);
        },
        success: function(xml){
                $(xml).find('text').each(function(){
                        text[$(this).attr('id')] = $(this).text();
                });
        }
});
console.log("Lets see the object...");
console.log(text);

I have added some console.logs to troubleshoot.
Here is a screenshot of the console.

So you see for some reason the request has failed.. any idea why?

english.xml simply contains:

<text id="call">Caller</text>
<text id="chat">Chatter</text>

Update:
Changed datatype to text and now getting success response but the ‘text’ object is not getting updated ?

var text = new Object();
$.ajax({
        type: 'GET',
        url: 'english.xml',
        dataType: "text",
        error: function(xhr, status, error) {
              console.log(xhr);
              console.log(xhr.responseText);
              console.log(status);
              console.log(error);
        },
        success: function(xml){
                $(xml).find('text').each(function(){
                        text[$(this).attr('id')] = $(this).text();
                });
                console.log(xml);
                console.log(text);
        }
});

Answer 1

I would add

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

to the top of your document. I have a feeling since your telling it your return type will be xml it is expecting this and erroring when it doesnt find it.

Also shouldn’t your response type be "application/xml" rather than just "xml" ?

Also you have async set to false, this means you are asking for a synchronous call. Just incase you were wondering

EDIT: I have edited since application/xml should really be used instead of text/xml

You also need to have a root node

<applicationCalls>
    <text id="call">Caller</text>
    <text id="chat">Chatter</text>
</applicationCalls>

You can call your root node whatever you like, just try and make it something that makes sense.