[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

Edge case answer (mostly so I can find it later):

Sending HTML document as String to api to generate PDFs.

For anyone that needs to convert the document.body to a String and them submit it via a POST to a service to convert the document to a PDF - IE8 doesn't support XMLSerializer. That being said you can use: $(document.body).html(); for IE8.

/**
 * Decides the method by which to turn the document.body into a string that we can post to the PDF Api.
 * Most browsers support XMLSerializer, for others (ie8) use jquery's html method to generate a string.
 * @param xmldom - document.body
 * @return - string representation of the document body
 */
function serializeXml(xmldom){
    if (typeof XMLSerializer != "undefined"){
        return (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(xmldom);
    } else {
        return $(xmldom).html();
    }
}

Call it with: var dom = serializeXml(document.body);