dealing with ajax returned text as xml

[sagel]

i'm just missing something here. im following this:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...wa-ajaxintro2/
(and comparing it with a dozen other tutorials) but it (and all the other examples) only have the called page return plain text. i've modified my example to return some xml:

<client>
<name>corey</name>
<color>blue</color>
</client>
<client>
<name>nick</name>
<color>red</color>
</client>

upon returning this xml, how do i modify:

var result = http_request.responseText;

to make javascript understand that "result" is xml so i can perform:

var clientList = result.getElementsByTagName("client");

thanks!

corey

[sagel]

nevermind. i got it. changing:
http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
and:
var result = http_request.responseXML;

did it.

thx.

corey