[removed] Replacement for XMLSerializer.serializeToString()?

Question

I\'m developing a website using the Seam framework and the RichFaces AJAX library (these isn\'t really all that important to the problem at hand - just some background).

Answer 1

In IE you can simply use the xml property of the XML node, provided newnode really is an XML node rather than an HTML node:

function serializeXmlNode(xmlNode) {
    if (typeof window.XMLSerializer != "undefined") {
        return (new window.XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(xmlNode);
    } else if (typeof xmlNode.xml != "undefined") {
        return xmlNode.xml;
    }
    return "";
}

oldnode.outerHTML = serializeXmlNode(newnode);

Update following question update

I wouldn't use outerHTML to replace an element. It's not universally supported. Instead, you could use a mix of innerHTML and standard DOM methods as follows:

var tempEl = document.createElement("div");
tempEl.innerHTML = serializeXmlNode(newnode);
oldnode.parentNode.replaceChild(oldnode, tempEl.firstChild);