> The onTap framework has some tools that accomplish the same 
> ends, I just don't see the need for XmlHTTPRequest as a 
> transport medium. Part of the reason I wasn't too hip to use 
> Dan Switzer's API in spite of it being a pretty small 
> library... I'd think you'd only need or want to use XML if 
> you planned to send data between different domains hosted on 
> separate servers, rather than within an individual 
> application where it seems to me it would be much more 
> efficient to _not_ need to continaully serialize and 
> deserialize XML packets.

You don't need to use XML to take advantage of XmlHTTPRequest, you can
simply use it to fetch things via HTTP, which is a good thing to be able to
do since you can avoid using frames/iframes/new windows, etc. You can just
look into your responseText property instead of responseXML.

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