Any insight into the problem here? When run, the code yields nothing. No text appears on the page. If I uncomment the commented line, the xml results appear. Why can't I pass it as a variable? (I do get the alert, fyi, so the function is being called.)\[code\] <script type="text/javascript"> function loadXMLDoc(parameterString) { alert("loadXMLDoc has been called."); var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) { //document.getElementById("xmlResults").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText; alert("Got the response!"); return xmlhttp.responseText; } else document.getElementById("xmlResults").innerHTML = "No results." } var url = "http://metpetdb.rpi.edu/metpetwebsearchIPhone.svc?" + parameterString; xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true); xmlhttp.send(); } </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function(){ //left out irrelevant code which creates the var "parameters" var results = loadXMLDoc(parameters); document.getElementById("xmlresults").innerHTML = results; }); </script><body><div id="xmlResults"></div></body>\[/code\]
Can't return xmlhttp.responseText?
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