#12260 closed bug (invalid)

Opened August 10, 2012 11:51PM UTC

Closed August 28, 2012 08:35AM UTC

Last modified March 14, 2013 03:36AM UTC

selector on xml file breaks in internet explorer (all jquery versions)

Reported by:	caruga	Owned by:	caruga
Priority:	undecided	Milestone:	None
Component:	unfiled	Version:	1.8.0
Keywords:		Cc:
Blocked by:		Blocking:

Description

Hi,

You can find my description of this bug @ https://forum.jquery.com/topic/this-line-fails-in-internet-explorer-but-not-firefox-or-chrome#14737000003544309

In brief, a certain xml file will fail to be read with the following selector:

"idea:not(idea idea)"

in internet explorer only, causing the code to halt at that point with

"Object doesn't support this property or method

jquery-1.7.2.js, line 5276 character 6"

If the xml file is a little less deep than the one I quoted in that link, the error won't occur.

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Change History (6)

Changed August 13, 2012 07:53AM UTC by anonymous comment:1

IE 9.

Object doesn't support this property or method

jquery-1.8.0.js, line 4822 character 7

Safari, Firefox, and Opera work fine.

Changed August 13, 2012 03:37PM UTC by timmywil comment:2

owner:	→ caruga
status:	new → pending

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Changed August 28, 2012 08:35AM UTC by trac-o-bot comment:3

resolution:	→ invalid
status:	pending → closed

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Changed January 30, 2013 07:46AM UTC by Stephen comment:4

This issue still exists, I am parsing a XML file for a WMS server.

$.get(capabilitiesUrl, function (data) {
  $("WMT_MS_Capabilities Capability Layer Layer Name",  $(data)).each(function (i) {

Will throw the error mentioned above.

The work around provided in this thread (https://forum.jquery.com/topic/this-line-fails-in-internet-explorer-but-not-firefox-or-chrome#14737000003544309) works as expected

$.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  url: capabilitiesUrl,
  dataType: "text",
  cache: false,
  success: function (text) {
    var data = $($.parseXML(text));
    $("WMT_MS_Capabilities Capability Layer Layer Name",  $(data)).each(function (i) {

This is probably more a bug with Internet Explorer not treating the XML as a document but jQuery support should probably work in IE9 also.

Changed March 14, 2013 01:02AM UTC by anonymous comment:5

Hi,

I am experiencing this problem in IE8 only. I am SOAP service and the payload is XML. IE9, Chrome and Firefox are all fine. I tried changing the data type to text, but it still fails. Is there a resolution to this problem? I do not have my cache set to false. Is this required?

Thanks

Changed March 14, 2013 03:36AM UTC by anonymous comment:6

Hi,

I resolved my problem by simplifying my jQuery selector. Instead of doing

var myelement2 = $(xml).find("MyElement1 MyElement2"),

I am doing

var myelement1 = $(xml).find("MyElement1");

var myelement2 = $(myelement1).find("MyElement2");

This resolved the exception and jQuery finds the elements as expected.