How to use the API to search Nominatim

Hello,

I am just getting my feet wet with the API, and I have run into a problem I don't know how to get around. I want to do a simple Nominatim search via the API instead of directly calling the web service with AJAX. I've tried a few different methods and none work. I must be doing something stupid.

First I tried the Nominatim.search method:

MQA.Nominatim.search("6422 W old hwy 64,davidson,nc,usa",callback=function(junk) {document.getElementById("junk").innerHTML=junk;});

This doesn't return an error, but it doesn't seem to do anything at all--my callback doesn't seem to get called.

Then I tried the NominatimIO.search method. It returns a different error for each format I try to get the response in.

For XML:

MQA.withModule('nominatim', function() {
io = new MQA.NominatimIO();
io.search("6422 W old hwy 64,davidson,nc,usa",nominatimOptions={format:"xml"},callback=function(junk) {document.getElementById("junk").innerHTML=junk;});
});

I get this error:

missing ; before statement
http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search?q=6422%20W%20old%20hwy%2064%2Cdavidson%2Cnc%2Cusa&format=xml&json_callback=MQA.NominatimIO.CALLBACKS.c13349532008891
Line 2

For HTML, I get this:

missing } in XML expression
http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1/search?q=6422%20W%20old%20hwy%2064%2Cdavidson%2Cnc%2Cusa&format=html&json_callback=MQA.NominatimIO.CALLBACKS.c13349532344021
Line 13

For JSON, I get this:

M is not a function
http://open.mapquestapi.com/sdk/js/v6.1.0/mqa.module.nominatimio.js
Line 1

Can anyone help me understand how to go about doing what I want to do?

Thanks,
Ben

Davidson, NC seems to be showing up in the Nominatum search now.

Have you verified that W old hwy 64 is in the osm data?

Is there a url where you have the different methods set up and we can see them?