Solutions
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CSN-UK's post in JS jQuery Process xml? was marked as the answerBit of an update for the benefit of those whom may in future experience a similar issue, It was DNS related, the localhost (LAMP/WAMP) server could not be found by $.get as it appeared to be querying the network DNS rather than considering the local DNS /localhost, thus returning a 404 file not found, works perfectly in a live environment however with the appropriate public URLs.