Any insight into the problem here? When run, the code yields nothing. No text appears on the page. If I uncomment the commented line, the xml results appear. Why can't I pass it as a variable? (I do get the alert, fyi, so the function is being called.)
<script type="text/javascript">
function loadXMLDoc(parameterString)
{
alert("loadXMLDoc has been called.");
var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
//document.getElementById("xmlResults").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
alert("Got the response!");
return xmlhttp.responseText;
}
else document.getElementById("xmlResults").innerHTML = "No results."
}
var url = "http://metpetdb.rpi.edu/metpetwebsearchIPhone.svc?" + parameterString;
xmlhttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlhttp.send();
}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
//left out irrelevant code which creates the var "parameters"
var results = loadXMLDoc(parameters);
document.getElementById("xmlresults").innerHTML = results;
});
</script>
<body>
<div id="xmlResults"></div>
</body>
