I have this response coming from a ASP.NET web service

1.     <string xmlns="http://Walkthrough/XmlWebServices/">
2.     {"approverName":"","emailAddress":"","companyName":"ABC","address":{"streetAddress1":"12 BlahBlah","streetAddress2":"","state":"ON","zipCode":"","country":"SO","phoneNumber":""},"tabledata:"[{"vendorPart":"AAAAA","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"28"},{"vendorPart":"BBBBBBB","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"3"},{"vendorPart":"CCCCCC","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"25"}]}
3.     </string>

which is being called with this jquery function:

1.     $(document).ready(function() {
2.                     $.ajax({
3.                     type: "POST",
4.                     url: "http://www.webservice.com/blahblah.asmx/blahb123",
5.                     data: "tnWsGuid=TEST1",
6.                     dataType: "script",
7.                         success: function(msg)
8.                         {
9.                             alert("sucess")
10.                         },
11.                         error: function(e)
12.                         {
13.                             alert(JSON.stringify(e));                       
14.                         }
15.                         });
16.                 });

My first question is this, I was having 403 forbidden issues with this function but omitting the contentType changed that. Then I was getting XML parsing issue and on a whim changing the dataType to script fixed that and gave me a response and I hit the success function. Why did that work?

I also would like to know how I can print out this data, because trying to treat it as json won't work, neither does XML. 

In chrome I receive this warning:

1.    Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/xml: "http://www.webservice.com/blahblah.asmx/blahb123?tnWsGuid=TEST1&_=1366025879568."

The part appended to the end of this url is confusing me (after TEST1).

In the console I also get this error in chrome:

1.     Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < 

Firebug gives me:

1.     SyntaxError: syntax error
2.      [Break On This Error]
3.     
4.     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
5.     <string xmlns="http://Walkthrough/XmlWebServices/">
6.         {"approverName":"","emailAddress":"","companyName":"ABC","address":{"streetAddress1":"12 BlahBlah","streetAddress2":"","state":"ON","zipCode":"","country":"SO","phoneNumber":""},
7. "tabledata:"[{"vendorPart":"AAAAA","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"28"},{"vendorPart":"BBBBBBB","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"3"},{"vendorPart":"CCCCCC","partDescription":"N/A","price":"0.00","quantity":"25"}]}
8.         </string>

     

So basically now that the dataType is script I get some sort of response but still have no idea how to parse this data. Preferably into a html table.

I hope you can help! Thanks for reading!

Here is a link to the header information logged by Firebug  here