FireFox imports only as XML

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by mitchkill, Jan 29, 2007.

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    Guys,
    I hope that you all can help me with this. I'm not sure what I am missing, but maybe you guys can give me a little direction.

    I have a web app that I am building using AJAX and PHP. It uses several different "dialog boxes" such as a Customer Search box, Item Search box, etc. These dialog boxes are DIV elements that I am importing on the fly from external files so that the user won't have to wait forever for the page to load initially. I am using Sarissa to handle the cross-browser loading of the document.

    The current code I have is as follows:


    data = Sarissa.getDomDocument("dialogs/customer_search.php", "data");
    data.async = false;
    data.load("dialogs/customer_search.php");
    document.getElementById('customerSearch').appendChild(document.importNode(data.getElementsByTagName(  'div')[0], true));
    Code (markup):
    Now crazily enough, this works great in IE7. The dialog box opens and displays without any problem. However when I try this in FireFox, it seems like it is only adding the info as XML. It isn't adding it as actual HTML nodes. (Not sure about the terminology here. If I need to explain further, I'll try.) Anyone have any great ideas on how to force Firefox to recognize the node that I am importing as HTML?

    Thanks for the help!

    Mitchell Killian (II Cor. 12:9)
    Integrity Design and Coding
    http://www.integritydc.net
    "Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." John 3:3
     
    mitchkill, Jan 29, 2007 IP
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    Someone in another forum suggested that I add a XMLNS attribute so FireFox knows that it is dealing with XHTML. I added the following attribute to the parent container in my dialog box file:

    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

    And now it works as I wanted it to.
     
    mitchkill, Jan 29, 2007 IP