Question

I’ve been trying to serialize an XML (jQuery object) to string to POST it to server.

<script>
$(function(){
  myxml = "<tag>just a sample here</tag>";
  myxml = $(myxml);
  if (window.ActiveXObject){
      var xmlString = myxml.xml;
  } else {
    var oSerializer = new XMLSerializer();  
    var xmlString = oSerializer.serializeToString(myxml); 
  }
  console.log(xmlString);
}
</script>

This code doesn’t work. FF throws a security error (didn’t check other browsers, but it is already enough that FF doesn’t run this script).

Answer 1

Just to sum up the experience.

Adding [0] to jQuery selector helped to address XML-type object (see my comments above):

<script>
$(function(){ 
  myxml = "<tag>just a sample here</tag>"; 
  myxml = $(myxml); 
  if (window.ActiveXObject){ 
    var xmlString = myxml.xml; 
  } else {
    var oSerializer = new XMLSerializer(); 
    var xmlString = oSerializer.serializeToString(myxml[0]); // <-- HERE!
  } 
  console.log(xmlString); 
})
</script>