“getElementById not a function” when trying to parse an AJAX response?

Question

I\'m running GM_xmlhttpRequest (in a Greasemonkey script) and storing the responseText into a newly created HTML element:

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Answer 1

There is no need to store the response in an element neither use DOMParser()

Just set the responseType to 'document' and the response will be parsed automatically and stored in the responseXML

Example:

var ajax = new XMLHttpRequest();
ajax.open('get','http://www.taringa.net');
ajax.responseType = 'document';
ajax.onload = function(){
    console.log(ajax.responseXML); //And this is a document which may execute getElementById
};
ajax.send();