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aleclofabbro
aleclofabbro

Reputation: 1699

XHR pure XML responseType

It is possible to configure XHR to receive an HTML document with

xhr.responseType = "document";

When the response is received, xhr.responseXML holds an HTML document, parsed against HTML namespace URI. You can check:

xhr.responseXML.children[0].namespaceURI === 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'

How can I get a pure XML document response, not parsed as HTML, something like:

document.implementation.createDocument(null,'');

Upvotes: 1

Views: 356

Answers (1)

aleclofabbro
aleclofabbro

Reputation: 1699

Didn't find documentation about this issue, but it seems (FF & Chromium at least) that the js engine parses the xhr.responseXML depending on the resource's file extension:
it casts to HTML .html files and to generic XML .xml files

Upvotes: 1

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