Question

I invoke a WebService method via jQuery

.js code

  $.ajax({
     url: '/ms.asmx/se2',
     data: {},
     success: function (result) {
                alert(result);
          },
         dataType: 'text'
    });

.asmx method

    [WebMethod]
    public string se2()
    {
        return "OK";
    }

the result is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">OK</string>

How to show only that XML content – OK – instead the XML code ?

Answer 1

jQuery has a function to parse XML: $.parseXML (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseXML/). In addition, if you pass ‘xml’ to dataType, jQuery will automatically parse it as xml.

So:

$.ajax({
    url: '/ms.asmx/se2',
    data: {},
    success: function (result) {
        alert( $(result).find('string').text() );
    }
    dataType: 'xml'
});