[Javascript] TextNodes

[vicente at vgcomunicacion.com (Vicente Gallur Valero)]

>
> I want to be able to pull from the server either a preformatted HTML 
> string or a multiline string and insert it into the clients <div> 
> segment.
>
> This I know presents some problems because the TextNode cannot, by 
> definition, hold anything like a <b> or <p> tags.  But I don't know 
> enough of the alternatives to be able to sort this one out.  Is there 
> where responseXML takes precedence over the responseText method of the 
> Request object?
>
> How do you use them?
>

I think the easiest way is take always the responseText property instead 
of responseXML, even if you use (X)HTML code in your response. Then you 
can insert the code into the <div> by asigning it to the innerHTML 
property of the <div>. If it contains HTML code, it will be parsed by 
the browser. This method will not work in an XHTML document served with 
an XHTML Content-type header.

You can also use the responseXML property, but then you must ensure the 
code is well formed XML and it's served with an XML Content-type header. 
Then you can insert the code with the DOM methods.


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