My web app uses XML data islands to hold data on the page that the underlying javascript will process later:
<xml id="myxml" name="myxml" runat="server"></xml>
Data consisting of well-formed xml is retrieved from the server when the page is loaded, and the javascript can get the xml by looking up the element (document.getElementById("
This works great in IE.
I have to make this work in Firefox.
Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't directly support the <xml> tag. So I wind up with two problems:
1) The xml gets spewed onto the screen. I can fix this by hiding the element.
2). The bigger problem is that the xml is being modified. The innerHTML property contains only the concatenated text of all the elements - all of the tags and attributes have been stripped out. This, of course, renders the text useless as xml.
I can work around this by using an <input type="hidden" ...> element instead of <xml>, but this requires lots of other code changes in the underlying c# and javascript that I am trying to avoid.
So the question is, how do I get the <xml> tag to behave in Firefox in a way that solves problem 2 listed above? Or is it not possible?
Is there a recommended method for doing xml data islands in Firefox?
Thanks!
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by: KelevraPosted on 2009-05-18 at 12:10:14ID: 24415417
Hi,
what if, you create a very small, <div> like 1px height and 1px width, and you store the xml in it.
This way you are able to work with it, and it wont bother you any more!.
hope this'll help