Parsing XML in a Web Worker

Question

I have been using a DOMParser object to parse a text string to an XML tree. However it is not available in the context of a Web Worker (and neither is, of course, document.E

Answer 1

according to the spec

The DOM APIs (Node objects, Document objects, etc) are not available to workers in this version of this specification.

I guess thats why DOMParser is not availlable, but I don't really understand why that decision was made. (fetching and processing an XML document in a WebWorker does not seems unreasonnable)

but you can import other tools available: a "Cross Platform XML Parsing in JavaScript"

Answer 2

At this point I like to share my parser: https://github.com/tobiasnickel/tXml

with its tXml() method you can parse a string into an object and it takes only 0.5kb minified + gzipped