Dean Edwards: How To Load And Parse XML Data Without ActiveXA little known but cool feature of Internet Explorer is its support for XML data islands. Basically, you can embed some XML data in a page like this: <html> <head> <xml> <root>Some data</root> </xml> </head> Even cooler, you can reference an external data source: <xml src="data.xml"></xml> The classic “Ajax” way to load XML data involves a couple of ActiveX objects: var http = new ActiveXObject("M
