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

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Tim Schaub wrote:
> 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.

And in the trunk with r6496.

> 
> Tim
> 
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