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Hello! I'm new to Ajax (coming from PHP world), and I've been able to find plenty of examples of Ajax being used to display data from XML on a web page, but I haven't found many examples of Ajax being used to update/edit the content or structure of an XML file through the web page front-end. Is there a reason this doesn't seem to be commonly done?

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I wouldn't think so. This should be fairly easy for a competent programmer.
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> I've been able to find plenty of examples of Ajax being used to display data from XML on
> a web page

XML when served by the server when making asynchronous requests is purely for the sake of easy data manipulation given that a XML response can be easily inspected/worked upon using the DOM API.

> but I haven't found many examples of Ajax being used to update/edit the content or
> structure of an XML file through the web page front-end

You can, but there doesn't seem to be any real need to do so.
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