On 9/30/11 2:23 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Charles Pritchard<[email protected]> wrote:
Now that DOM4 includes DOMString as an argument type for Node methods, I'd like
to have a clear and easy path to serialize a JSON object into an XML DOMString.
It's not a trivial task. Any takers?
Example:
JSON.toXML({div:'Hello world'});
I'm curious why you would want such a thing. You can store DOM trees
as strings and revive them when used. You can transmit DOM across XHR
either as a string or, soon, directly as a document.
I don't see a reason to store DOM into an alternative JSON structure.
FWIW, it's meant for the other direction: converting a JSON structure
into DOM (or XML).
If a JSON.toNode (document fragment) makes more sense, that'd work too
and may be more efficient.
JSON.toNode({div: 'hello world'}).toString() would give me XML,
and without the toString, I'd have a node, which is now the same as
document fragment.
