Re: XMLHttpRequest overrideMimeType question..

Lucky wrote:


> have seen the mass use of overrideMimeType('text/xml') when using the 
> XMLHttpRequest object.
> 
> I would really like to know WHY this seems to be some magic "band-aid" 
> for some peoples code, esp when they say it fixes many calls to even 
> HTML pages, that they would possibly never be a "well-formed" XMLDocument??

That band aid is usually not necessary if people have set up their HTTP 
servers to serve static or dynamically created XML documents with a 
known XML Content-Type like application/xml or text/xml.
But an XHTML 1.0 document can be served as text/html and then 
XMLHttpRequest would not parse it as XML and there it would help to use 
overrideMimeType to get XMLHttpRequest to parse the response sent as 
text/html as XML by calling overrideMimeType('application/xml') or even 
ovverideMimeType('application/xhtml+xml').

I don't think overrideMimeType will help in any way to parse HTML tag 
soup successfully with an XML parser.


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