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

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

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);
>             }
> ......
> 
> I tested on IE6 and firefox2, the fileType is undefined, and this will 
> force re-parse the xml string.
> 

You're absolutely right.  Thanks for the catch.

So, anybody using WFS, GML, or GeoRSS layers has been forcing the
browser to parse the request.responseText unnecessarily.

Patch is in ticket for ticket #1428.

Tim

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