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XPath Support in IE (using 2.1 90226) causing errors

Using Firefox 3.0.11 the following works as expected:

endpoint =    "/ajax/setProgramOpenClose.php"
parms =     "pgmId="+selectedRows;
            
var loader = dhtmlxAjax.postSync(endpoint, parms);

// loader.xmlDoc.responseText is:
//<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
//<result>
// <value>1</value>
// <message>Changes sucessfully made.</message>
//</result>

var result = loader.doXPath("/result/message");
                    
alert(result[0].textContent);

In FF the last alert is "Changes sucessfully made". Howerver when running same in IE8 I get "undefined". I know there are documented problems with IEs xpath support. Am I running into IE limitations here?





                

textContent isn't supported by IE. You can try to use result[0].firstChild.data instead of it.