getting the result in xml from ajax call

senthil wrote:

         I want to make a ajax call to rails to particular action which returns xml and i want to get that xml in java script function.can any one help me to do this???

Suppose your application.js has function foo().

I suspect this action handler does what you need:

render :update do |rjs|   rjs.call :foo, my_xml end

That's all. The my_xml contents will be escaped as a big JavaScript string, and 'foo(' & ')' will be put around it. Then the whole string will go across the wire, and get evaluated as JavaScript. It will de-escape the string, find XML, and pass that to foo().