returning XML data from a javascript call

[endlessvoid94]

Hello everyone

I have a javascript client (ajax) and the xmlhttprequest object POSTs to a file called getQuestion.php

I want to return an xml string. This is what happens.

$xml = simplexml_load_file('example.xml');
echo $xml->asXML();

Now, when I do a direct call to this script (not from client, but putting the url in the browser manually) I get the text from the xml file but not the xml forms. If I view the SOURCE in the browser, there's the XML. But my javascript will NOT receive it for some reason. The xmlhttprequest.responseXML is null. I have no idea why.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Dave

[NogDog]

I suspect the problem is elsewhere (we might need to see more code), but you might see if changing the content-type header makes any difference:

<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('example.xml');
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
echo $xml->asXML();
?>

PS: If in the actual code nothing goes on between the simplexml_load_file() and the echo, it would be simpler and faster to just do:

<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml");
readfile('example.xml');
?>