I've found several instances of people having trouble using jQuery with a document that implements custom HTML namespaces (i.e. <foo:bar />), and I was wondering if anyone had developed any work-arounds?
I've recently been tasked with incorporating jQuery into our corporate application -- largely due to my prodding and fanfare -- and the first area I'm working on has some DOM manipulation, but it fails with jQuery due to our namespacing that we use. I am simply attempting to insert HTML into the document using html(). I'm not sure what all the html() method does behind-the-scenes, but evidently it does alot more than I ever gave it credit for. Using a pre-existing implementation of Mootools, the content is inserted with no issues. Using innerHTML, the content is inserted with no issues. Using .html(), the DOM structure is clobbered and errors are thrown. I hacked the selector regex and added in a ":" (for the namespaced items), but that seems to have little effect on the final result. Also, the HTML chunk I am inserting has a link to an external .js via <script> tag, and for some reason that .js is loaded fresh, even though the browser already has it cached; using Mootools, or .innerHTML, you can see the browser request the .js but the server returns a 304 and thus its not downloaded again. Why is jQuery forcing it to download, and can I disable this? Thoughts? Thanks in advance, Ken
