Why Most Popular JavaScript libraries doesn’t support XML with namespaces?

0Milinda • 28th Jul 2008 • JavaScript, jQuery, yui

I am involve in developing Web Based Management Console for Apache ODE these days for Google Summer of Code 2008. For the mid term evaluation I used code developed using jQuery and I tested only in Firefox 2. But After I submit patches to ODE, developers mentioned about bugs in Firefox 3 and IE 7. I try to find a solution from the web and I was not able to find a solution for jQuery. After doing some tests using getElementsByTagName and getElementsByTagNameNS, i found that Firefox 3 and IE7 support XML namespace handling differently and still popular JavaScript libraries like jQuery and YUI don't support namespace handling also. But at last I found this article from Zach Leatherman, which describe the actual problem web developers faced and how we can solve it. There is a Javascript library called Sarissa which is released under Apache License and it will make JavaScript developers life easier by supporting XMLs with namespaces. Sphere: Related Content

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