Parsing XML in a Web Worker

[LukasSkywalker]

I wanted to parse a local XML file in a chrome web worker. I tried to load the XML file in the worker with a XMLHttpRequest, but noticed that responseXML is always null in workers (https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Worker).
Is there another way to parse XML files in workers?
I failed to load the file outside the worker and pass the responseXML data to the worker ("Unable to clone object" or similar).

[passfree]

I believe that you should be able to use XPCOM from chrome workers.

[Jonas Sicking]

That's no longer true as of Firefox 8. Additionally, while you could
use XPCOM in earlier versions, trying to use the DOM through XPCOM
would be no more threadsafe than any other way to use the DOM.

/ Jonas

[martin.j...@gmail.com]

http://xmljs.sourceforge.net/index.html

I use it and it works perfectly - and it is ALMOST 100% compatible with inbedded DOM (well, Chromium's, at least) - just a couple of tweaks to the code and you can get it running perfectly with both. Needless to say, it's slower, but then that really isn't an issue since you are running in a background thread.

[martin.j...@gmail.com]