Jquery: Problem passing XML to function using $.get

Question

I seem to have an issue passing the xml i am reading to a function.. Basically i have this, this seems to work

    $.get("content/xml/faq.xml", function(test) {
        alert(test);// TEST CONTAINS THE XML
    });

but i really want to isolate the function and have the get call a new function but "data" in my function is undefined. I do end up in processFaq so the call back is working but data is empty

    $.get("content/xml/faq.xml", processFaq());

    function processFaq(data) {
       alert(data);  // DATA IS UNDEFINED
    }

Anybody know what i am doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

antpaw · Accepted Answer · 2009-12-17 10:28:42Z

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 $.get("content/xml/faq.xml", processFaq);

this should work

answered Dec 17, 2009 at 10:28

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K Prime Over a year ago

To add to this - processFaq() executes the function and passes the returned value, whereas processFaq will pass the function itself

mark smith Over a year ago

Thanks antpaw, i am little confused so when i passed processFaq() - notice the brakets it didn't work but without brackets it did work.. I thought i supposed to always use brackets when calling a function ??

antpaw Over a year ago

im not sure but i think somewhere inside the get function defenition its using eval(callback_function_name + '(data)'), but your right it needs to be more consistent

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