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Recently I’ve been working with Javascript in combination with XML and I found these methods quite usefull to switch between a string and a xml object.

function stringToXML( pString ){
	var lXML;
	// IE
	if( window.ActiveXObject ){
		lXML = new ActiveXObject( 'Microsoft.XMLDOM' );
		lXML.async = 'false';
		lXML.loadXML( pString );
	// no IE
	} else {
		var lParser = new DOMParser();
		lXML = lParser.parseFromString( pString, 'text/xml' );
	}
	return lXML;
}

function xmlToString( pXML ){
	// IE
	if( window.ActiveXObject ){
		return pXML.xml;
	// no IE
	} else {
		return ( new XMLSerializer() ).serializeToString( pXML );
	}
}