each() not firing under IE

[arangas]

The following each() does not fire with jQuery 1.4.4rc2 under IE7 or IE8 (but works under Firefox 3.6, Chrome 7 and IE9):

$('Property', result).each(function () {
    var name = $('Name', this).text();
    alert("Name: " + name);
});

against sample XML:

var result = "\
<Properties>\
    <Property>\
        <Name>Title</Name>\
    </Property>\
</Properties>\
";

May also fail under previous jQuery versions (not tested).

[arangas]

jsFiddle repro: ​http://jsfiddle.net/Qph9r/

[arangas]

Please close this bug. There is a workaround for this issue in IE:

var properties = $('Property', result);
if ((properties.length == 0) && (jQuery.browser.msie)) {
	// IE screwing up
	var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
	xmlDoc.loadXML(result);
	result = xmlDoc;
	properties = $('Property', result);
}

[snover]

Thanks for the report, but this is not a jQuery bug. The elements you are trying to select against are not valid HTML elements, and IE causes any element that it does not recognise to be empty. This same problem happens with HTML5 elements, and is resolvable through a ​shim.