[Sam Granger]

I'm not sure what I am doing wrong, but I cannot seem to extract information from an XML using jQuery. The XML does get loaded, so that isn't the problem.

What the XML looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ping>
    <pong>Hello world</pong>
</ping>

What my jQuery looks like:

$(document).ready(function(){
    var userStatus;
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "/ping/user_status/",
        dataType: "xml",
        success: function(xml) {
            userStatus = $(this).find('pong').text();
            $('#userstatus').html(userStatus);
        }
    });
});

Any clues where I might be going wrong?

[Salathe]

Looks like you'll be wanting to use

var userStatus = $(xml).find('pong').text();

[Sam Granger]

Thanks Salathe, but already tried that already without any luck .

Live demo: http://explore2.com/

[Salathe]

Send the XML response back with an XML content type header:

header('Content-Type: text/xml;charset=utf-8');

[Sam Granger]

Thanks Peter, so simple yet effective! Didn't know that would make much difference due to file structure but it did the trick!