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I am passing the following JSON to jQuery.parseJSON method but its not working. I tried displaying the exception as well but it still does not work.

I have also validated the JSON on jsonlint.com and it is valid.

JSON :

{
    "objectType": "collection",
    "timestamp": "2012-09-06T04:37:19.616-07:00",
    "totalItems": 1,
    "items": [
        {
            "objectType": "activity",
            "actor": {
                "objectType": "person",
                "status": "active",
                "id": "1310001",
                "url": "/users/1310001",
                "displayName": "Harshal Patil",
                "image": {
                    "width": 48,
                    "height": 48,
                    "url": "/image/user_portrait?img_id=1810950&t=1346328977999"
                }
            },
            "id": "50263e9a64bd507afe544bd9",
            "object": {
                "objectType": "post",
                "type": "community_wall",
                "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/post",
                "postVersion": "3",
                "likes": {
                    "objectType": "likes",
                    "totalLikes": "1",
                    "likers": {
                        "objectType": "collection",
                        "totalItems": 1,
                        "items": [
                            {
                                "objectType": "person",
                                "status": "active",
                                "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/user",
                                "id": "1611572",
                                "url": "/users/1611572",
                                "displayName": "Chetan Patil"
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                },
                "id": "900037",
                "displayName": "Check 27",
                "url": "/posts/900037",
                "summary": "Check 27",
                "author": {
                    "objectType": "person",
                    "status": "active",
                    "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/user",
                    "id": "1310001",
                    "url": "/users/1310001",
                    "displayName": "Harshal Patil"
                },
                "activities": {
                    "objectType": "collection",
                    "totalItems": 2,
                    "timestamp": "2012-09-06T04:37:19.616-07:00",
                    "items": [
                        {
                            "objectType": "activity",
                            "actor": {
                                "objectType": "person",
                                "status": "active",
                                "id": "1611572",
                                "url": "/users/1611572",
                                "displayName": "Chetan Patil",
                                "image": {
                                    "width": 31,
                                    "height": 31,
                                    "url": "/image/user_portrait?img_id=1811452&t=1346767915384"
                                }
                            },
                            "id": "50488ae264bdadfef03ccf7d",
                            "object": {
                                "objectType": "comment",
                                "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/comment",
                                "id": "2011344",
                                "summary": "Help me.........",
                                "url": "/posts/900037/comments/2011344"
                            },
                            "published": "2012-09-06T04:37:06.266-07:00",
                            "verb": "add"
                        },
                        {
                            "objectType": "activity",
                            "actor": {
                                "objectType": "person",
                                "status": "active",
                                "id": "1611572",
                                "url": "/users/1611572",
                                "displayName": "Chetan Patil",
                                "image": {
                                    "width": 31,
                                    "height": 31,
                                    "url": "/image/user_portrait?img_id=1811452&t=1346767915384"
                                }
                            },
                            "id": "50488aef64bdadfef03ccf81",
                            "object": {
                                "objectType": "reply",
                                "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/comment",
                                "id": "2011350",
                                "url": "/web/view-post/post/-/posts?postId=900037&messageScrollId=2011350",
                                "summary": "Check 33",
                                "inReplyTo": [
                                    {
                                        "objectType": "comment",
                                        "id": "2011344",
                                        "author": {
                                            "objectType": "person",
                                            "status": "active",
                                            "resource": "http://quad.cisco.com/schema/1.0/user",
                                            "id": "1611572",
                                            "url": "/users/1611572",
                                            "displayName": "Chetan Patil"
                                        }
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            "published": "2012-09-06T04:37:19.616-07:00",
                            "verb": "add"
                        }
                    ]
                },
                "meta": {
                    "objectType": "meta",
                    "like ": "none",
                    "favorite ": "none",
                    "permission": {
                        "objectType": "permission",
                        "comment": true,
                        "edit": false,
                        "share": false
                    },
                    "flagable ": true
                }
            },
            "published": "2012-08-11T04:14:34.709-07:00",
            "verb": "update",
            "to": [
                {
                    "objectType": "collection",
                    "totalItems": 1,
                    "items": [
                        {
                            "objectType": "community",
                            "id": "1310067",
                            "url": "/communities/1310067",
                            "displayName": "Test1"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

The related piece of code :

      if(xmlHttp.status == 200){
                try{
                    var responseString = xmlHttp.responseText;
                    var responseJSON = jQuery.parseJSON(responseString);
                }
                catch(exception){
                    alert(exception.name);
                }
      }

My input JSON string to the jQuery.parseJSON() function is :

{
    "items": [
        {
            "contentTitle": "Ask an Expert : Neha Test Expert : <script>"
        }
    ]
}

I feel that the parser parses "<script>" as the HTML script tag. Hence, the doublequote(") after <script> in the JSON is considered as start of string and hence, while rendering the text, there are Javascript errors.

Can somebody please clarify and suggest what needs to be done?

Thanks,
Gaurav