[OpenLayers-Dev] IE

[Tim Schaub]

Hey-

Lance Dyas wrote:
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>> Hope somebody can help me solving IE XML parsing problem (WMSManager.js 
>> line 862) and Safari select issue (WMSManager.js line 674).
>> Otherwise I'll go on "crying alone"
>> :-) 
>>   
> The true horror of it is. IE has very poor xml parsing...in specific 
> NameSpaces and
> Character Encodings are munged...and while there is "XML for <Script>" a 
> javascript
>  library which can for the most part by pass it.. well it adds a minimum 
> of 80kb to your
>  solution and over the web... that is quite a cost

I'm going to suggest OpenLayers.Format.XML for cross-browser xml-dom 
serializing/deserializing.

I've only taken a quick hack at this, but you can see the results in 
this demo (serialize/deserialize GML):
http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/tschaub/xml/examples/vector-formats.html

In my mind, any format based on XML should subclass 
OpenLayers.Format.XML - these formats will inherit methods like 
createElementNS, getElementsByTagNameNS, etc.

(I hope to deprecate the OpenLayers.Ajax and OpenLayers.Util that do 
this sort of thing for 3.0.)

Tim

- the code in this sandbox should not be considered stable or complete