Force XMLSerializer not to collapse empty tags?

Question

Is it possible via any configuration option to tell JavaScript's XMLSerializer not to collapse empty tags into self-closing tags? I'm feeding an xml string into the xml parser then reserializing it after making modifications to the tree, but where I have an explicit closing tag in the input, this is collapsed to a self-closing tag in the output which is causing problems.

Answer 1

If you don't have jquery available and only wanted to go via xmlserialzer way, you can also use npm package 'xmldom'.

var serializer = require('xmldom').XMLSerializer;
var str = serializer.serializeToString('your node');

It takes care of self closing tags(eg. script tags). NPM xmldom Works fine in IE11.