title: Uncaught error expression: Syntax error, unrecognized expression
body: <p>I am simply just trying to place a text file into a variable fileDom to have inside my web application.  Right now I am not parsing anything, just storing the data.</p>
  
  <p>My html is a placeholder for later use, but is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" type ="text/css" href="css/reader.css"&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;&lt;/title&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;script src="js/jquery-1.11.3.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="js/reader.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>my script is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var HTML_FILE_URL = 'http://localhost/feed.txt';
  
  $(document).ready(function() {
      $.get(HTML_FILE_URL, function(data) {
          var fileDom = $(data);
              console.log($(this).text());
      });
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I created a XAMPP that runs holds the txt file and the scripting file to avoid technical request security measurements for development.</p>
  
  <p>Anyway, the syntax error doesn't recognize the expression so the log shows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>All the content in my txt file, no quotes, just the string itself as intended 
  and the line error points me to the API and this line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Sizzle.error = function( msg ) {
      throw new Error( "Syntax error, unrecognized expression: " + msg );
  };
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Simple solution I'm sure, but I can't get around to parsing and storing the lines from the file until I get this (probably really silly solution) figured out.  Thanks for any help!</p>