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Solution to XML namespace problem in getElementsByTagName

July 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments · JavaScript

Here is a simple code I used as a solution to XML namespace handling in different browsers(IE, Firefox 2, Firefox3, ..). But it requires more arguments like namespace and namespace frefix. But I think that this function can be improve based on problem that you have to solve. 
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function getElementsByTagName(tagName, ns, prefix, scope){
		var elementListForReturn = scope.getElementsByTagName(prefix+":"+tagName);
		if(elementListForReturn.length == 0){
			elementListForReturn = scope.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
			if(elementListForReturn.length == 0){
				elementListForReturn = scope.getElementsByTagName("ns:"+tagName);
				if(elementListForReturn.length == 0 && document.getElementsByTagNameNS){
					elementListForReturn = scope.getElementsByTagNameNS(ns, tagName);
				}
			}
		}     
 
		return elementListForReturn;
    }
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