XMLDocument.load()

document.load() is a part of an old version of the W3C DOM Level 3 Load & Save module. Can be used with XMLDocument.async to indicate whether the request is synchronous or asynchronous (the default). As of at least Gecko 1.9, this no longer supports cross-site loading of documents (Use XMLHttpRequest or fetch() instead).

var xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "test", null);

function documentLoaded (e) {
  alert(new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(e.target)); // Gives querydata.xml contents as string
}

xmlDoc.addEventListener("load", documentLoaded, false);
xmlDoc.load('querydata.xml');

See also the load sample in the XML tests directory. (To test this functionality, create the files on your local disk or on a webserver rather than loading the load.html file from the LXR-generated page, which will serve the text.xml file as HTML.)

• Old W3C Working Draft of the DOM Level 3 Load & Save module

• XMLDocument.async
• XML in Mozilla