Re: [jQuery] How to post modified XML document whose source was an AJAX get

tarh33l wrote:
> I'm trying to take some XML I receive from an AJAX call (via a "GET"),
> manipulate it, then POST the document to an ASP.NET page. My "get"
> looks like this:
>
> var createNewUsersExtendedAttributes = function()
> {
> $.ajax({
> type: "GET",
> url: "<someURL>",
> dataType: "xml",
> cache: false,
> success: processExtendedAttributes(xml),
> error: function() {
> // handle error
> }
> });
>
> }
>
> processExtendedAttributes = function(xml)
> {
> // set a member variable in this class
> userProfileExtendedAttributes = $(xml);
> }
>
> Elsewhere in my code, I manipulate nodes in the member variable
> "userProfileExtendedAttributes". All of this works great. However, I
> have problems when I want to take that XML document and do a POST with
> it:
>
> $.ajax({
> type: "POST",
> url: "<someURL>",
> processData: false,
> contentType: "text/xml",
> // remember, the userProfileExtendedAttributes
> variable was assigned in the above success callback using $(xml)
> data: userProfileExtendedAttributes,
> success: function(data)
> {
> alert('success!');
> },
> error: function(request,status,errorThrown)
> {
> alert('failure!');
> }
> });
>
> I've played with the usual suspects (processData, contentType, etc.),
> and they are not fixing the issue. If I debug the page to which I'm
> posting (or look at HTTP headers being sent to the page), I get
> nothing in terms of posted data (note: if I put simple name/value
> pairs in the data parameter, I do see those). I understand that when
> I call the function that uses the post code above, the member variable
> "userProfileExtendedAttributes" is NOT a string representation of the
> XML document (it's actually a reference to a jQuery instance of an XML
> document). I believe this issue is happening because I'm not sending
> an XML string to the page I'm posting to, however, I cannot for the
> life of me figure out how to get this XML document serialized so that
> I can post it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
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