0.9: XML handling severely broken in IE 6

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

0.9: XML handling severely broken in IE 6

This happened in the past couple days. Something with how xhrGet handles the parameter handleAs: "xml" has severely broken on IE 6. Namely, it passes the deferred callback a completely unusable object. This is breaking the dojox.data.OpmlStore? and dojox.data.XmlStore? at a minimum. anyone using xhrGet on IE 6 and handleAs xml are broken. The same testcase works fine on Firefox 2.0, Safari beta 3, Opera 9.2, etc.

Output from Firefox 2.0 in console:

XML object is type: object XML object toString is: [object XMLDocument] XML content is: <root> <child/> <child>Text here</child> <foo/> </root> Trying to dump attribute i: load with value function load() { [native code] } Trying to dump attribute i: nodeName with value #document Trying to dump attribute i: nodeValue with value null .. .

Output on IE 6 for the same code:

XML object is type: object XML object toString is: XML content is: undefined On Error attribute: name value is: TypeError? On Error attribute: message value is: Object doesn't support this action On Error attribute: number value is: -2146827843 On Error attribute: description value is: Object doesn't support this action

The errors come from the part of the test where it tries to iterate over the attributes of the object and emit the values.

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Test XML file to load

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Test HTML file to load it.

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Test HTML file to load it.

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

Note to run the testcase, just drop it in the root of your dojo and dojox extraction. The files should be peers to dojo and dojox.

Eg:

dojo/ dojox/ simple.xml test_xhrGet.html

[Jared Jurkiewicz]

And trying this again ... if I open the file locally, I get this failure. If I run it through a HTTP server ... it works. What the heck?

This IS IE 6, not 7. It doesn't require files to be served through a server.

[James Burke]

This seems to be a duplicate of #3294. Closing as such.