It seems you have a misunderstanding here. $(data).text() will get you
the innerText/textContent of all the nodes in your XML, it's not
converting the whole response back to text.
Are you sending the response as 'text/xml' from the server?
add
complete: function(xhr){
console.log(xhr);
}
and check if you have the responseXML property (you can try to use
it's documentElement directly also).
- ricardo
On Feb 20, 3:59 am, "s.ross" <cwdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Here are a few results from the callback
> function:
>
> data => [object Document]
> data.find('category') => TypeError: Value undefined does not allow
> function calls.
> $(data).find('category') => [object Object]
> $(data).find('category').length => 0
> $(data).text() => [text of whole xml document]
>
> As you can see, the data passed into the function is a first-class
> object, but as the second line illustrates, we can't traverse its DOM
> yet. So, I promote it to a jQuery object using $(data). Doing a find
> ('category') on that produces an object, but the length (I've
> confirmed that it's pretty extensive) still shows up as zero. Noting
> that $(data).text() "demotes" the object to its textual XML
> representation, I found I could wrap that as:
>
> $(
> $(data).text()
> )
>
> which means (to me), forget what you knew about the data object passed
> in and strip it back to bare text, then parse it as an xml document.
>
> I'm sure I'm making some dumb mistake here, but I just don't see it.
> There's just no reason a library as capable as jQuery shouldn't be
> able to wrap this little problem around its little finger. I'm
> perplexed. But I am also completely sold on jQuery for all my Web
> projects where debugging is at least slightly more sane :)
>
> On Feb 19, 10:27 pm, mkmanning <michaell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I suspect it's the dance you're having to do. Quickly testing in a
> > browser, If you use
>
> > xmlObjectTree = $(data)
>
> > then you can iterate through the animal tags.
> > Doing the dance in a browser yields an unrecognized expression syntax
> > exception. How did you come to use $($(data).text()); and what happens
> > if you use the other method?
>
> > On Feb 19, 8:29 pm, "s.ross" <cwdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm trying to get Adobe(TM)(R) AIR to work with jQuery kinda friendly-
> > > like. I'm sending off an xml-rpc request as follows:
>
> > > this.packageRequest = function(method,
> > > secure, params, callback) {
> > > var msg = new
> > > XMLRPCMessage(method);
> > > msg.addParameter(params);
>
> > > urn = (secure) ? this.SecureUrn :
> > > this.Urn;
> > > urn += this.istockEndPoint;
> > > $.ajax({
> > > url: urn,
> > > data: msg.xml(),
> > > dataType: 'xml',
> > > type: 'POST',
> > > contentType: 'text/xml',
> > > success: callback
> > > });
> > > }
>
> > > All well and good, and for simple response groups, this works great.
> > > The callback function is invoked and the xml sanitized. I'm not
> > > certain why, but I have to do this dance in the callback:
>
> > > function myFineCallback(data) {
> > > xmlObjectTree = $($(data).text());
>
> > > }
>
> > > The problem I'm really bumping up against is the case where the XML
> > > looks like:
>
> > > <root>
> > > <animals>
> > > <category name="reptiles" />
> > > <category name="mammals" />
> > > <category name="marsupials" />
> > > </animals>
> > > </root>
>
> > > You get the picture. The tags have no content. One would expect that:
>
> > > xmlObjectTree.find('animals category').each( ... )
>
> > > would iterate the animals tags, allowing me to pull the name attribute
> > > out, but I'm getting a zero-length result. Same for xmlObjectTree.find
> > > ('category').
>
> > > Any thoughts>
