jquery ajax parsererror xml,parseerror when getting XML via jQuery AJAX

I want to pull an RSS feed via jQuery AJAX, but every time I do, I get a parsererror. My feed is relatively complex (using CDATA and custom namespaces), so I tried stripping down the document returned (along with a million other combinations), but even with an extremely simple document, it still fails. This is my AJAX code:

$.ajax({

type: 'GET',

url: ...,

dataType: 'xml',

success: function(xml) {

...

},

error: function(xhr, textStatus, error) {

console.log('status: ' + textStatus);

console.log(xhr.responseText);

showError('an unknown error occurred while trying to fetch the feed: ' + xhr.status);

}

});

Console output:

status: parsererror

title

link

desc

build date

gen