IE 8 not working with jQuery.parseXML

Question

I'm using Jquery 1.9.1. It works fine in Chrome, but Ie 8, i get error: "invalid xml". It seems IE 6-8 has problems with dataType: xml. Jquery.parseXML is not working on ie-6-8.

$(document).ready(function() {
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "faculty.xml",
        dataType: "text",
        success: function(xml) { parseXmlx(xml); },
        error: function(e) { alert(e) }
    });
    $("#output").append("<p>Loading full-time faculty...</p>");
});

function parseXmlx(xml) {
    $("#output").empty();
    // alert(xml);
    var $xml = $(jQuery.parseXML(xml));
    // find every Tutorial and print the author
}



<person>
<name>test</name>
</person>

error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Timestamp: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:42:26 UTC


Message: Invalid XML: <person>
<name>Test</name>
</person>

Line: 507
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: jquery-1.9.1.js

Is your XML valid? Just because it works in chrome doesn't mean it's valid. — Kevin B, Jun 19 '13 at 17:37
You can try to make sure your xml is valid by validating it here. http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp — Smeegs, Jun 19 '13 at 17:38
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13019015/jquery-xml-parse-with-check-for-ie8-not-working — Benjamin Gruenbaum, Jun 19 '13 at 17:44
I went to that page already, appreantly IE 6-8 crap out on dataytpe XML. It keeps failing for me. — runners3431, Jun 19 '13 at 17:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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I'm not sure if this is the problem causing the issue, but it's good practise to add following line as the first line of your XML file. (don't have access to IE8 to test this)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

you could also try forcing the headers to make sure these are correct:

change

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "faculty.xml",
    dataType: "text",
    success: function(xml) { parseXmlx(xml); },
    error: function(e) { alert(e) }
});

to:

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "faculty.xml",
    dataType: ($.browser.msie) ? "text" : "xml",
    accepts: {
         xml: "text/xml",
         text: "text/xml"
    },
    success: function(xml) { parseXmlx(xml); },
    error: function(e) { alert(e) }
});

(cfr. IE9 refuses to process XML response )

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Jun 19 '13 at 17:45

Kristof Feys

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hmm you also seem to have an empty line at the end of the xml, could you remove that as well (also make sure that the person tag is under the lin – Kristof Feys Jun 19 '13 at 17:50
I deleted the empty line and added the ?xml but error still persists. – runners3431 Jun 19 '13 at 18:02
you could try forcing headers in your ajax request aswell (i'll edit my answer) – Kristof Feys Jun 20 '13 at 09:20

IE 8 not working with jQuery.parseXML

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