filling text areas with data

[lynchpin]

Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting my head around a problem.
I have a page with a blank text area. Below this text area is a link to an xml file. When the user clicks on this link i want the xml to be written to the text area without having to reload the page.

Does anyone have any idea how i can do this using javascript?

thanks in advance,
colm

[requestcode]

Maybe Ajax will do the trick.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/dhtmltutors/ajaxincludes.shtml
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

I have not worked with it myself, but have read a lot about it.