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title: "what i the role of xml in Ajax?"  
description: "what i the role of xml in Ajax?"  
author: "Varun Agrawal"  
published: 2011-03-28  
updated: 2020-09-16  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/705/what-i-the-role-of-xml-in-ajax  
category: "ajax"  
tags: ["ajax"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# what i the role of xml in Ajax?

Web Services and AJAX seem made for one another. You can use client-side API's for downloading and parsing the XML content from RESTful Web Services. (However be mindful with some SOAP based Web Services architectures the payloads can get quite large and complex, and therefore may be inappropriate with AJAX techniqes.)

## Answers

### Answer by Varun Agrawal

Web Services and AJAX seem made for one another. You can use client-side API's for downloading and parsing the XML content from RESTful Web Services. (However be mindful with some SOAP based Web Services architectures the payloads can get quite large and complex, and therefore may be inappropriate with AJAX techniqes.)


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