extract text from dojo xhrPost - dojo

Question

I have a function in which I am doing a dojo.xhrPost(). Now the returning data is wrapped in an unwanted <div> which is framework specific and cannot be removed. How can I strip away the div element. Here is my code.
function sendForm() {
var resultNode = dojo.create("li");
dojo.xhrPost({
url: "${sectionaddurl}",
form: dojo.byId("sectionform"),
load: function(newContent) {
dojo.style(resultNode,"display","block");
resultNode.innerHTML = newContent;
},
error: function() {
resultNode.innerHTML = "Your form could not be sent.";
}
});
$("#sectionform")[0].reset();
dojo.place(resultNode, "existing_coursesection", "first");
}
In jquery we would do $("#some_ID").text(); where the id will be the div obtained via ajax.
Will dojo allow me to manipulate the request data which is like <div id="unwanted_div">containing my text</div>
any ideas?

Answer 1

I am not sure these are the "best" ways to go at it but they shoud work
1) Have the data be interpreted as XML instead of plain text:
dojo.require('dojox.xml.parser');
dojo.xhrPost({
//...
handleAs: 'xml',
//...
load: function(response_div){
//content should be xml now
result.innerHTML = dojox.xml.parser.textContent(response_div);
}
//...
})
2) Convert it to html and then process it
//create a thworwaway div with the respnse
var d = dojo.create('div', {innerHTML: response});
result.innerHTML = d.firstChild.innerHTML;
2.1) Use dojo.query instead of .firstChild if you need smore sofistication.

Answer 2

I prefer handle as JSON format :) , dojo have more utilities to access and to iterate the response.
dojo.xhrGet({
url : url,
handleAs : "json",
failOk : true, //Indicates whether a request should be allowed to fail
//(and therefore no console error message in the event of a failure)
timeout : 20000,
content: {//params},
load: function(){ // something },
preventCache: true,
error: function(error, ioargs) {
console.info("error function", ioargs);
var message = "";
console.info(ioargs.xhr.status, error);
//error process
},
handle: function(response, ioargs) {
var message = "";
console.info(ioargs.xhr.status, error);
switch (ioargs.xhr.status) {
case 200:
message = "Good request.";
break;
case 404:
message = "The page you requested was not found.";
break;
case 0:
message = "A network error occurred. Check that you are connected to the internet.";
break;
default:
message = "An unknown error occurred";
}
}
});