Thomas (boggyb) wrote,
Thomas
boggyb
So today at work I ended up explaining to a colleague that XMLHttpRequest isn't just for JSON, but that it can parse XML documents and turn them into a nice object structure. He was thinking that I'd have to receive the XML as text and use some XML-to-JS library to parse it (which to be fair I may still have to do - some of the code I'm writing will run server-side where XMLHttpRequest doesn't exist).

For those who don't know their web development history, the original point of XMLHttpRequest was to let JavaScript make XML requests and handle XML responses. Using it for JSON came much later.
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