How to make existing JavaScripts & xml parsing browser independent

We have an web app where client side JavaScript is开发者_如何转开发 used heavily and ONLY works in IE (All versions). However, we want to make these JavaScripts browser independent. We use Microsoft technologies such as Asp.net/Classic asp etc.

We have mostly used XML (using activeX object such as new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")) in JavaScript to:

• Get data from server in XML format
• Load to XMLDocument
• Parse the document
• Transform the document using XSLT

How can we make these above steps browser independent? Which Jquery plugins we should use to transform xml?

Can anyone help us?

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jQuery can handle the first three items natively:

Use $.ajax() to get data from the server.

You can parse the xml using jQuery's standard selectors.

I don't have any experience with using it to apply XSLT, but I see that there is a plugin that looks promising:

http://www.jongma.org/webtools/jquery/xslt/

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For Ajax calls you can use jquery API (XML is only one of the data types): http://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/. This API allows easy cross domain ajax calls As well as easy parsing and access to the returned data (XML formatted). Here ius a simple example: http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/xml-parsing-with-jquery

For the transformation you can use one of numerous jquery plugins :

• http://plugins.jquery.com/project/XSLTTemplater
• http://www.jongma.org/webtools/jquery/xslt/
• http://plugins.jquery.com/project/Transform

Hope it helps.