jQuery: Evaluate script in ajax response

Question

XML responses from my webapp have both HTML to add to the page AND some have a script to run.

I\'m trying to send back XML from my webapp like:

Answer 1

You'd rather send JSON, it's way easier to interpret. Example:

// Suppose your response is a string:
// { html: "
add me to the page
, script:"alert('execute me');" }
var obj = eval( "(" + response + ")" ) ;
eval( obj.script ) ;