ajax - return only part of responsetext

Question

The below is just a bit of my ajax code, at the moment my variable 'resp' is returning an entire response from test.php. Is there any way I can just return the responseText between a specified tag? ie. just get back the responseText of the html inside test.php's div of id="xyz"?

var loc="test.php?myinput=apple";
ajax.onreadystatechange=function() {
        if (ajax.readyState==4  && ajax.status == 200) {    
            var resp =  ajax.responseText;
        }
    }
ajax.open("GET",loc,true);
ajax.send(null);

Answer 1

You could use jquery shorthand function load() to do this in a swift

$('#result').load('test.php' #container');

here result is the div where you want to place the response text and container is the your specified source element location of test.php

is this what you want?