That sounds like whitespace before the <?xml tag.
I notice in your previous message where you listed the entire response,
there is a space before the <?xml.
What's the value of res.responseText.indexOf('<')? It should be 0.
> From: John Ruffin
>
> Michael, I tried your test verbatim as the callback to my
> $.ajax { complete : yourFunctionNameHere }. Worked like a
> charm. I saw the expected results in the console.
>
> However, when switch your xml to be evaluated out for the
> xhr.responseText - I get an "error" in firebug "XML or text
> declaration not at start of entity".
>
> Just to check, I put an alert right before the call to
> parseXML() and I can see the full xml of the response.
>
> alert(res.responseText);
> var dom = parseXML(res.responseText);
>
> I couldn't tell what caused the hiccup. Any ideas?
>
> On Nov 11, 4:10 pm, Michael Geary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You could just run an XML parser on the returned text:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-en/msg/3b15af17889ee816
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> > > From: John Ruffin
> >
> > > I tried to set the $ajax{ dataType : xml } attribute but the
> > > response still showed in responseText not responseXML.
>
