jQuery: how to get xml system independently?

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Suppose xmlNode is a XML DOM node, how do you get its XML system independently?

For IE, it is xmlNode.xml;

For Netscape, it is new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(xmlNode).

In jQuery, is there any built-in method I can leverage?

Are you stuck using XML? JSON is waaaaay easier to deal with. — Diodeus - James MacFarlane, Oct 29 '08 at 20:29
No choice, our data file are all XML based, there is no way to use JSON to pass around data, which will require heavy conversion. — , Oct 31 '08 at 18:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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I don't know of a native JQuery function to do it, but there's a cross-browser JavaScript way to get XML from an XML DOM node. Look at the xml2Str function in the answer to this Stack Overflow question: Serialize a DOM node to XML text using JavaScript.

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answered Mar 08 '09 at 16:50

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '08 at 05:17

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$(xmlNode).html();

answered Nov 23 '08 at 05:17

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '09 at 17:42

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var xmlContent = $(xmlNode)

For a longer explination checkout the IBM developer works article on AJAX with jQuery

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I don't think that works: the jQuery/$ converts the serialized form into a DOM, but not the other way around. At least I can't get it do to that. – Peter Becker Nov 30 '09 at 03:39
adding .html() to the end will give you the XML as a string. – acrosman Nov 30 '09 at 14:23
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not necessarily. With DOM returned from server, I get this error: TypeError: Cannot call method 'replace' of undefined. – Raj Sep 09 '10 at 18:41

jQuery: how to get xml system independently?

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