JavaScript: Replacement for XMLSerializer.seralizeToString()?
- by NRaf
I'm developing a website using the Seam framework and the RichFaces AJAX library (these isn't really all that important to the problem at hand - just some background).
I seem to have uncovered a bug, however, in RichFaces which, in certain instances, will cause AJAX-based updating to fail in IE8 (see here for more info: http://community.jboss.org/message/585737).
The following is the code where the exception is occurring:
var anchor = oldnode.parentNode;
if(!window.opera && !A4J.AJAX.isWebkitBreakingAmps() && oldnode.outerHTML && !oldnode.tagName.match( /(tbody|thead|tfoot|tr|th|td)/i ) ){
LOG.debug("Replace content of node by outerHTML()");
if (!Sarissa._SARISSA_IS_IE || oldnode.tagName.toLowerCase()!="table") {
try {
oldnode.innerHTML = "";
} catch(e){
LOG.error("Error to clear node content by innerHTML "+e.message);
Sarissa.clearChildNodes(oldnode);
}
}
oldnode.outerHTML = new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(newnode);
}
The last line (the one with XMLSerializer) is where the exception is occurring in IE. I was wondering if anyone knows of any replacement method / library / etc I could use there (only on IE is fine). Thanks.
