Workaround for xml data islands

Question

I recently inherited a huge webapp which is a combination of JSP,Javascript and Java. It works only on IE due to the way it has been coded using xml data islands and other t

Answer 1

From IE10 onwards, XML data islands are no longer supported - the browser parses them as HTML. The Mozilla Developer Network have produced an article which gives a cross-browser alternative to XML data islands, namely an HTML5 "data block". The article demonstrates that a tag.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_XML_Data_Islands_in_Mozilla

Here's the HTML example they give...

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You will need to write your own method to load data into that block (perhaps using jQuery.get or .load methods).

Hope that helps!