Get the string representation of a DOM node

Question

Javascript: I have the DOM representation of a node (element or document) and I\'m looking for the string representation of it. E.g.,

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Answer 1

Under FF you can use the XMLSerializer object to serialize XML into a string. IE gives you an xml property of a node. So you can do the following:

function xml2string(node) {
   if (typeof(XMLSerializer) !== 'undefined') {
      var serializer = new XMLSerializer();
      return serializer.serializeToString(node);
   } else if (node.xml) {
      return node.xml;
   }
}