E4X to DOM and Back Again

If you're like me, some of the time, you'll work in E4X. Other times, you'll use DOM methods. Occasionally you'll want to switch back and forth from one to the other. Here's how to do the roundtrip.

// create E4X XML object
e4x = <div>Hello World!</div>;

// serialize it
serialzed = e4x.toXMLString();

// create DOM object
dom =
( new DOMParser() ).parseFromString( serialzed, 'application/xml' );

// make it into a string again
serialized = ( new XMLSerializer() ).serializeToString(dom);

// back to E4X XML object
e4x = new XML( serialized );

Eventually we can expect to see support for a syntax like e4x = new XML( dom ), but this has yet to be implemented in Firefox.