Summary One way to solve the problem of non-compliant tag names in Web Storage System

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function getProps(Location, oProps) { var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("msxml2.XMLHTTP"); var _BAD_TAG_PREFIX = "_BAD_"; try { xmlhttp.Open("PROPFIND", Location, false); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Depth", "0"); if (oProps != null) { xmlhttp.Send(oProps); } else { xmlhttp.Send(); } } catch(e) { alert(e.description); } if (xmlhttp.Status <= 299) { // if response was successful, we still have to check // whether we parsed it correctly. var dom = xmlhttp.responseXML; if (dom.parseError.errorCode != 0) { if (dom.parseError.errorCode == -1072896763) { // let's clear the xml string and try again var re = /(<(|\/)([a-z~*:)*)(\d)/gi; var s = xmlhttp.responseText dom.loadXML(s.replace(re, "$1"+ _BAD_TAG_PREFIX +"$4")); if (dom.parseError.errorCode == 0) { // o.k. we got it right. Do whatever we wanted to do with the dom object. return(dom); } else { // Fail miserably. alert("Can't recover from bad xml! The last error was: " + dom.parseError.reason); } } } else { // ok, success. return(dom); } } else { // do something to report unsuccess. }