Re: External node troubles [FF3 RC1]

Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.dom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
noon wrote:
> Can't use responseXML because it isn't XML, it's HTML, so I get a
> return of null.

But it's well-formed enough to be parsed with DOMParser?  Does calling 
overridMimeType("application/xml") on the XMLHttpRequest object before making 
your send() call make this problem go away?

> So my course of action is instead of attempting to adopt a document
> node, adopt an element.

Right.

> How can I use the DOMParser or the same
> effect without getting a document object? Or can I strip the rest of
> the child nodes from this document object?

The latter.  So you can get the doc.documentElement from the DOMParser result 
document, and adopt that element.

-Boris
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