Summary

With little effort, the XMLHTTPRequest object's responseText property can be persuaded to do more than simply return some text to display in a web page.

For all but the most complex data formats, it may prove simpler to manipulate responseText than to deal with the added complexity of XML.

In this lesson you saw several examples of this technique, ranging from the simple update of text content within a page element, to the manipulation of more complex data structures.