Head Rush Ajax

374

Chapter 7

The heavyweight champion: XML

You’ve already seen how a server can return

XML in response to your request:

Here’s the XML that the

Boards ‘R’ Us server sent

back in Chapter 6.

XML has been around the block...

and you already know how to use

the DOM to work with XML data..

xml from the server

<?php

require(‘lib.php’);

function go() {

$myVar = ...

return ...

}

?>

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

<totals>

<boards-sold>1710</boards-sold>

<boots-sold>315</boots-sold>

<bindings-sold>85</bindings-sold>

</totals>

PHP script

You work

with XML

using the

DOM.