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    copied!<p>I have a XML response from an Ajax REST call. Similar to the one below.</p> <pre><code> &lt;eventBlock&gt; &lt;event eventId="641"&gt; &lt;processId&gt;myprocess&lt;/processId&gt; &lt;batchId&gt;15581&lt;/batchId&gt; &lt;user&gt;Ajay&lt;/user&gt; &lt;participant&gt;XYZ&lt;/participant&gt; &lt;activity&gt;Jogging&lt;/activity&gt; &lt;note&gt;Athletic&lt;/note&gt; &lt;createdOn&gt;2011-11-22 00:00:00.0&lt;/createdOn&gt; &lt;createdBy&gt;User5&lt;/createdBy&gt; &lt;/event&gt; &lt;/eventBlock&gt; </code></pre> <p>My HTML:</p> <pre><code> &lt;form class="searchform" id="searchform" action="javascript: submitForm();"&gt; ..... &lt;/form&gt; &lt;div id="UI"&gt; &lt;table id="events" class="display"&gt; &lt;thead&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;eventId&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;processId&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;batchId&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;user&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;participant&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;activity&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;note&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;createdOn&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;createdBy&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/thead&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>Javascript:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var thisTable; thisTable = $("#events").dataTable( { "sPaginationType": "full_numbers", "bJQueryUI": true } ); function addToTable(response){ var $events = $(response).find("event"); $events.each(function(index, event){ var $event = $(event), addData = []; addData.push($event.attr("eventId")); addData.push($event.children("processId").text()); addData.push($event.children("batchId").text()); addData.push($event.children("user").text()); addData.push($event.children("participant").text()); addData.push($event.children("activity").text()); addData.push($event.children("note").text()); addData.push($event.children("createdOn").text()); addData.push($event.children("createdBy").text()); thisTable.fnAddData(addData); }); } function submitForm() { $.ajax({ url:'../../data.xml', data:{ batchId:1234, processId:afsfafgg }, type:"GET", success:addToTable }); return false; } &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>When I hit the submit. I get below error on firebug. Can someone help me resolve this?</p> <blockquote> <p>oSettings is null [Break On This Error]<br> var iRow = oSettings.aoData.length;</p> </blockquote> <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
 

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