jquery.formatXml Plugin

Awhile ago I wrote a shim for jQuery to add pseudo-XML compatibility that makes it easier to manipulate and read XML cross-browser on the client. I did it because I was working on a legacy application that decided it was a good idea to store the model in XML in a hidden input. No, I can't switch to Knockout, as much as I'd want to.

However, I really liked the trick of showing a JSON output of a Knockout view model on a page while debugging on another project since it made it easier to see what was happening behind the scenes.

I came back to do some work on this legacy app and missed that in-your-face feedback. So I wrote an extension to my own plugin that traverses an XML jquery object and creates a tree to output to the page:

Here's a jsFiddle of the output: