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Giani Noyez
Giani Noyez

Reputation: 491

Ajax: invalid XML error

I'm instructed to make an ajax call to read my xml. When I try to do so I get an parsererror.

When I run my xml through a validator, it appears to be correct.

this is my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<webservices>
<flickr>
    <api>
        <key>
            ***
        </key>
        <secret>
            ***
        </secret>
    </api>
    <url>
        <api-url>
        https://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.search
        </api-url>
        <attr>
            tags=
        </attr>
        <attr>
            has_geo=1
        </attr>
        <attr>
            per_page=4
        </attr>
    </url>
</flickr>
</webservices>

ajax request: 

var getFlickrApi = function(){

   $.ajax({
       url: 'assets/xml/config.xml',
       dataType: 'xml',
       success: handleXML,
       error: handleError
   });

};

var handleXML = function(data){
    console.log(data);
};

var handleError = function(xhr, error, message){
    console.log(error, message);
};

error message:

message: "Invalid XML: <webservices>↵    <flickr>↵        <api>↵            <key>↵                ***↵            </key>↵

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4237

Answers (2)

Giani Noyez
Giani Noyez

Reputation: 491

This issue is resolved by simply clearing my cache. It seemed that my ajax call was accessing my previous (incorrect) xml document which was stored in cache.

Thanks for everyone who was trying to help me out.

Upvotes: 0

Gabriele Petrioli
Gabriele Petrioli

Reputation: 196236

Assuming that the *** is not what is really in the xml, you must make sure that the chars in there are allowed.

For example characters like <>& must be encoded.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references#Predefined_entities_in_XML

Upvotes: 1

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