Question

I encountered a Javascript error while parsing an XML file. My code looks like this:

var det = eval( "(" +  xmlhttp.responseText + ")");

the returned xml file for this code would be :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><accountss><accounts>`<password>1234</password><userid>arjel</userid></accounts></accountss>

I have an unterminated regular expression literal error when executing this code. What could be the problem ?

Answer 1

You are trying to parse XML using an old, slow, dangerous piece of code designed to parse JSON by evaluating it as JavaScript. Unlike JSON, XML is not a subset of JavaScript, so it errors when you try to do this.

Just access xmlhttp.responseXML directly.