Either DOMParser or XMLSerializer is dropping my namespace declaration in IE9

Question

So I think there are probably cleaner solutions than what I am doing anyway, but I\'m wondering if this is a known issue, if there\'s something obvious I\'m doing wrong, etc

Answer 1

I made a test case http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/javascript/2012/test2012070901.html and I can confirm that the output with IE 9 on Windows 7 is

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so the namespace declaration is dropped. I consider that a bug in IE 9, you might want to check connect.microsoft.com whether anything like that is already reported, and if not file it. Is anyone reading here using IE 10? What does IE 10 show?

[edit]There is a connect issue on IE 10, probably related: https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/728093/xmlserializer-omits-xmlns-attributes.