Parsing XML from php using jquery

Question

I have a script in php that writes XML.

I use an ajax call to read that XML.

$.ajax({
        url: "http://blablabla.com/myscript.php",
        data: requestVars,
        dataType: 'xml',
        success: function(xml){
            XMLParser(xml);
            },
        error: function(xhr,err){
            alert("readyState: "+ xhr.readyState + "\nstatus: " + xhr.status + "\nerror:" + err);
            alert("responseText: " + xhr.responseText);
            }
    });

On php I have this:

<?php
header('Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8');

...
?>

(tried both with application/xml and text/xml)

Problem:

Works like a charm in Google Chrome, fails on IE9 and Firefox with readyState: 4, status: 200 and Error: parsererror

EDIT: A little piece of sample XML:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

    <Index Title="asdsad" isImg="0">
      <Categories>
        <Cat Id="13">
          <Title>Movies</Title>
        </Cat>
        <Cat Id="15">
          <Title>Books</Title>
        </Cat>
      </Categories>
      <Subject Id="141" Open="0">
        <Title>Subject A</Title>
        <Resource Id="553" Level="2">
          <Title>Resource A1</Title>
        </Resource>
        </Subject>
    </Index>

Can you show us the XML?

TJHeuvel
– TJHeuvel

2011-10-10 11:42:28 +00:00
Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 11:42 — TJHeuvel
– TJHeuvel, Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 11:42

Gianpaolo Di Nino · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-10 11:54:29Z

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Are you sure that your editor setup encode is utf-8 and you save this xml/php file as utf-8?

Use firebug into firefox to check what error is generating your call. Maybe is just some not valid utf-8 character inside your xml.

answered Oct 10, 2011 at 11:54

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jose Over a year ago

I've checked and the php is in utf-8. But using fiddler2 and firebug i saw that there are certain characters that are not correctly encoded ... i don't know why. Maybe you're right, but i can't find the problem

Gianpaolo Di Nino Over a year ago

@jose: as i said before be sure your editor/ide or what else you use to program got character encoding as utf-8, you should find this under general settings. If some chars are NOT utf-8 may be caused by some data arriving from the db/file or dunno what you are parsing to get this xml generated.

hakre · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-10 11:45:02Z

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It might be that jQuery is unable to parse the XML, but your XMLParser might be.

If that is the case, you can process any result you get with the complete function. It will be called whether or not there is an error (network error or parsing error).

See http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

answered Oct 10, 2011 at 11:45

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