Question

I have a peice of code that i call inside of $(“document).ready() in jquery that tries to open an xml file and parse it.

$.get('cal.xml', function(data){
    alert(data);
var xmlDoc = $.parseXML(data);
var $xml = $(xmlDoc);
});

the alert that pops up is “[object Document]” rather than the actual text of the xml which then throws a problem with $.parseXML(data) saying that
“Uncaught Invalid XML: undefined” (implying that data is undefined).

here is the XML file

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<cal>
    <today>
        <event>
            <time>
                6:30pm EST
            </time>
            <title>
                nothing
            </title>
        </event>
    </today>
</cal>

Could someone help me simply read in this XML file and set it up for parsing?

Answer 1

Try to set the dataType option to xml:

$.get('cal.xml', function(data){
    alert(data);
}, 'xml');

“data” should be at this point parsed xml.