如何使用JavaScript显示XML

Question

I have this XML:

  <school>
   <name>Big school</name>
   <located>somewhere</located>
   <age>163</age>
   <students>53354</students>
 </school>

I want to add new element to this XML and display it in a browser. I can use DOM methods to add new element but I do not know how to display it in a browser. I found this http://www.ehow.com/how_5941838_display-xml-javascript.html but I did not make it work.

I want to see something like this in a browser:

<school>
   <name>Big school</name>
   <located>somewhere</located>
   <age>163</age>
   <students>53354</students>
   <teachers>18752</teachers>
 </school>

Can i do this in some simple way?

Answer 1

You could just wrap it in a xmp element, which will preserve the formatting and display the markup (not interpret it as HTML).

<xmp>
    <school>
        <name>Big school</name>
        <located>somewhere</located>
        <age>163</age>
        <students>53354</students>
        <teachers>18752</teachers>
    </school>
</xmp>

Note though that this tag is non standard and has been deprecated as the others noted, but it still works in all major browsers and there seems to be no decent alternative to it (without using JS or escaping the content).