[OpenLayers-Users] wfs-t not working in IE ?

[Lance Dyas]

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 10:17:32PM -0700, Louvy Joseph wrote:
>  
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I can get the wfs-t.html example work fine in firefox against my 
>> geoserver but it fails in IE.  The status bar at the bottom on IE 7 
>> says "Error on page". When I click it, it shows error on vague line 
>> number saying "Object does not support this property or method". Line 
>> number does not seem to match where the actual error is found.
>>
>> Is there a known issue with IE & wfs-t insert transaction? How do I 
>> debug javascript in IE?
>>     
>
> "# Internet Explorer does not have a built in XML Serializer, so it can
> not save WFS-T payloads to a server via the 'commit' method on a WFS
> layer."   --  http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Release/2.4/Notes
>
> "IE has no built in XML Serializer. The
> OpenLayers.Ajax.serializeXMLToString function will fail in IE. We should
> choose a library which has an XML Serializer with namespace support in
> it and allow users to use it with IE to add serialize support."
>
>  -- http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/535
>
> I spent several hours looking for an XML Serializer for IE, and couldn't
> find one. It's possible I missed something. If you have one loaded, the
> function to modify is OpenLayers.Ajax.serializeXMLToString -- it should
> accept an XML DOM object, and return a string. If you can make this
> happen on IE, there are no other known problems with the WFS-T in
> Internet Explorer. 
> Regards,
>   
Ummmm

function Serialize(xmlDoc)  {
   if (typeof XMLSerializer != "undefined") {
       xml = ( new XMLSerializer()) .serializeToString(xmlDoc);
       }
   else {
       xml = xmlDoc.xml;
       }
return xml;
}