[OpenLayers-Dev] Why check the fileType of ajax request for xml?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:11:08PM +0800, XinGang Li wrote:
> In the layers that load data from xml stream, we always check the fileType
> like this:
> 
> requestSuccess:function(request) {
>         if (this.features) {
>             var doc = request.responseXML;
> 
>             if (!doc || request.fileType!="XML") {
>                 doc = OpenLayers.parseXMLString(request.responseText);
>             }
> ......

XinGang,

Thanks for your feedback. Tim has confirmed that this is a mistake
leftover from the "Early Days" of OpenLayers, and a patch to remove this
is currently awaiting commit.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta