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You could try using the dataType option in $.ajax:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "mypage.php",
data: "id=1",
dataType: "xml"
success: function(msg){
// do something
}
});
The HTML should be valid XML as well (i.e. if you changed the
extension to 'xml' you could open it in IE (or any XML editor) without
any parsing errors).

if the files is xhtml (or xml of some type) and it's being served as text/html, the browser won't give you a dom.
UNLESS you override the mime-type!
<font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="4">
beforeSend : function(req){req.overrideMimeType('text/xml')},
</font><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;">dataType: "xml",</span></font>
<font size="4">
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span></font>
inside the $,ajax call.
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">tcollogne</b> <<a href="mailto:tcollogne@hotmail.com">tcollogne@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,
I have a static html page containing xml code. Problem is that when I do an
ajax request to get the content, it is always returned as a text/html
I would like to parse the return string as a dom document. It is impossible
for us to change the extension, so I was wondering if there is a possibility
to convert the return string to a dom document.
I use sarissa now for this, but It would be much better if jquery had
somthing like this.
Can somebody help me please?
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ps... this may not work in IE!
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ</b> <<a href="mailto:jakecigar@gmail.com">jakecigar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
if the files is xhtml (or xml of some type) and it's being served as text/html, the browser won't give you a dom.
UNLESS you override the mime-type!
<font style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="4">
beforeSend : function(req){req.overrideMimeType('text/xml')},
</font><font size="4"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;">dataType: "xml",</span></font>
<font size="4">
<span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-weight: bold; font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span></font>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">tcollogne</b> <<a href="mailto:tcollogne@hotmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tcollogne@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,
I have a static html page containing xml code. Problem is that when I do an
ajax request to get the content, it is always returned as a text/html
I would like to parse the return string as a dom document. It is impossible
for us to change the extension, so I was wondering if there is a possibility
to convert the return string to a dom document.
I use sarissa now for this, but It would be much better if jquery had
somthing like this.
Can somebody help me please?
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Here's a fn for converting strings to docs:
function stringToDoc(s) {
var doc;
if (window.ActiveXObject) {
doc = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
doc.async = 'false';
doc.loadXML(s);
}
else
doc = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(s, 'text/xml');
return (doc && doc.documentElement && doc.documentElement.tagName
!= 'parsererror') ? doc : null;
}

@Mike - I actually had that same function for a project I was working
on, and IE plain refused to convert it to a DOM that I could work
with.
In the end, I used a bit of substring parsing to get the contents of
the body, and dumped it in a hidden DIV (thus creating the DOM I
needed):
xml = xml.substring(xml.indexOf('<body>') + '<body>'.length);
xml = xml.substring(0, xml.indexOf('</body>'));
$('body').append('<div id="_xml"></div>');
$('_xml').hide().append(xml);
Pretty clunky but it did the job.

Thanks, Remy. Good to know.
Mike