Load xml from javascript

Question

Totally new to XML and I\'ve been struggling on this very simple objective for too long (though I can find enough on the internet about it). Just need the values out of this

Answer 1

Your server isn't returning the appropriate Content-Type header. The responseXML property only works if the server returns a Content-Type: text/xml or similar +xml header.

See Ajax Patterns:

The service just needs to output an XML Content-type header...

From the w3c:

If final MIME type is not null, text/xml, application/xml, and does not end in +xml [...] return null.

If you have no access to the server and can't change the Content-Type header, use the overrideMimeType function to force the XMLHttpRequest to treat the response as text/xml:

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
   xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else {    // IE 5/6
   xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}

xhttp.overrideMimeType('text/xml');

xhttp.open("GET", "pricing.xml", false);
xhttp.send(null);
xmlDoc = xhttp.responseXML;

var uurloon = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("uurloon")[0].childNodes[0].text;
var setloon = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("setloon")[0].childNodes[0].text
alert('end');

citation: http://blog-rat.blogspot.com/2010/11/xmlhttprequestresponsexml-returns-null.html