Pass XML to PHP for all versions of IE

Question

So I'm passing XML to a PHP file. Things work great in non-IE browsers, and things work great in IE8 and IE11, but not in 9 and 10.

The culprit, I'm betting, is that first "if" condition in the stringIt function below. What I don't know is why exactly it works for 8 and 11 but not 9 and 10, and more importantly, what should I be doing instead to deal with all four versions.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

function stringIt($xml) {
    var doc = $xml[0],
        string;
    if(window.ActiveXObject) { alert('activeX'); string = doc.xml; }
    else { string = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(doc); }
    return string;
}

EDIT : Here's the solution I ended up using. Thanks again for that link tjb.

function stringIt($xml) {
    var doc = $xml[0],
        string;
    if(window.ActiveXObject) { alert('activeX'); string = doc.xml; }
    else { string = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(doc); }
    if(string == null) {string = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(doc);}
    return string;
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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You might try some variation of this:

$('<div>').append($xml).html();

(taken from https://stackoverflow.com/a/15885505/762844)

It does mess up casing, though, so <MyNode ...> apparently becomes <mynode>.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered May 16 '14 at 23:38

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Thanks tjb. After reading several posts related to the one you linked, I ended up just testing the string after the first if/else in stringIt and if it's null then serialize. Appears to work for all 4 versions. – Frankenscarf May 17 '14 at 08:03

Pass XML to PHP for all versions of IE

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