Re: AJAX...

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:14:16 -0500
 Robert Cozzi <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In a CGI library the AJAX pieces really need to be sent
> as XML. So you need
> to build the XML using whatever you want. 

Bob,

I've only used AJAX in a few projects now, but I've always
returned HTML and I am curious as to this statement that it
should be XML.

In fact, I found AJAX was what I've wanted for years.  It's
fairly easy to convert your dymamic SSI to AJAX and make
the pages more seamless (as SSI was the closest to AJAX
that I could get before, and I use it for almost
everything).

AJAX really is just returning data to the page, so making
XML then converting that to HTML really seems like an extra
unneeded step in most web applications, but I am interested
in hearing the whos, whats and whys behind this statement.
 :)

But, I'm shying away from AJAX the more I use it.  It seems
to make debugging and error tracking, not to mention flow a
little more difficult.  But it's still pretty cool.