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<p class="MsoNormal">A few weeks ago I posted a problem that I was having with IE11, didn't hear anything back and was able to code an awkward work around for my specific issue<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">https://www.mail-archive.com/openlayers-users@lists.osgeo.org/msg11768.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well yesterday I realized I was having a similar issue with the GetFeature control<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I found this solution on the OpenLayers developer list. Thank you Stephen Battey. I am posting it here to make the answer more widely available<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/WFS-and-IE-11-td5090636.html<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We override the write method in the OpenLayers.Format.XML class. After the XML has been generated we do a search-replace on the rogue text
in the XML namespace. <br>
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Here is the code we run after OpenLayers has loaded: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">var _class = OpenLayers.Format.XML;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">var originalWriteFunction = _class.prototype.write;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">var patchedWriteFunction = function()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> var child = originalWriteFunction.apply( this, arguments );<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> // NOTE: Remove the rogue namespaces as one block of text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> // The second fragment "NS1:" is too small on its own and could cause valid text (in, say, ogc:Literal elements) to be erroneously removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> child = child.replace( new RegExp( 'xmlns:NS1="" NS1:', 'g' ), '' );<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> return child;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">_class.prototype.write = patchedWriteFunction;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ralph Dell<o:p></o:p></p>
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