How can I import a text file into javascript from an external website using jquery $get()?

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Published on 2010-04-28T03:50:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/28 3:53 UTC
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When the button in the following script gets clicked, it should load in the contents of the file "http://tanguay.info/knowsite/data.txt" and display it on the screen.

What is the correct syntaxt so that the .get() function retrieves the data from the external website and puts it in #content?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript"
        src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
            google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
                $('#toggleButton').click(loadDataFromExernalWebsite);
            });
            function loadDataFromExernalWebsite() {
                $('#content').html('new content');
                //$.get("http://tanguay.info/knowsite/data.txt", function(data) { alert(data); }, );
            }
        </script>
    </head>
<body>
    <p>Click the button to load content:</p>
    <p id="content"></p>
    <input id="toggleButton" type="button" value="load content"/>
</body>
</html>

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