How to use XML response from Creator form submit

I have created an HTML view in Zoho Creator that posts data to a creator form. I did this because I don't want all the form field to be displayed to the form user. My form submits perfectly. However the xml response that comes from the form submit gets returned as a downloaded file and I want to use the <status> element to provide feedback to the user of the form. How do I consume the response data since I cannot use javascript or php in a Zoho Creator HTML form?