I wrote a simple test case to demonstrate the problem: http://prune.da-shiz.net/uploads/jeff/tmp/ie-makes-me-a-sad-man/
Thanks, Jeff On Oct 21, 5:50 am, Jeff Winters <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy! > > In my app, I have a file upload form that submits to an iframe, with > the server returning an XML document. Though I am able to consume this > XML using jQuery in Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 4 without issue, the same > code fails in Internet Explorer 8. The relevant snippet of my code > follows: > > $('iframe#destination').load(function() { > var response = $(this).contents(); > console.log(response.find('mediaurl').text()); > > }); > > IE 8 doesn't produce an error, but simply fails to locate the element, > even when I am certain that it is present. I'm unsure as to exactly > what IE 8 parses -- reading response[0].childNodes seems to indicate > that IE thinks the document is HTML, but I cannot find anything beyond > this. (Neither IE 8's Developer Tools nor Firebug Lite seem to offer > the interrogative power of Firebug proper.) I've tried serving my > response with as both application/xml and text/xml, but it makes no > difference. > > Am I doing anything wrong? If not, how can I work around this issue? > > Thanks, > > Jeff
