// from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/crossbrowserscripting
/* is this stuff defined? */
if (!document.ELEMENT_NODE) {
  document.ELEMENT_NODE = 1;
  document.ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;
  document.TEXT_NODE = 3;
  document.CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
  document.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5;
  document.ENTITY_NODE = 6;
  document.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
  document.COMMENT_NODE = 8;
  document.DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;
  document.DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;
  document.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
  document.NOTATION_NODE = 12;
}

function xml_to_html(node, allChildren) {
  /* find the node type to import */
  switch (node.nodeType) {
    case document.ELEMENT_NODE:
      /* create a new element */
      var newNode = document.createElement(node.nodeName);
      /* does the node have any attributes to add? */
      if (node.attributes && node.attributes.length > 0)
        /* add all of the attributes */
        for (var i = 0, il = node.attributes.length; i < il;)
          newNode.setAttribute(node.attributes[i].nodeName, node.getAttribute(node.attributes[i++].nodeName));
      /* are we going after children too, and does the node have any? */
      if (allChildren && node.childNodes && node.childNodes.length > 0)
        /* recursively get all of the child nodes */
        for (var i = 0, il = node.childNodes.length; i < il;)
          newNode.appendChild(xml_to_html(node.childNodes[i++], allChildren));
      return newNode;
      break;
    case document.TEXT_NODE:
    case document.CDATA_SECTION_NODE:
    case document.COMMENT_NODE:
      return document.createTextNode(node.nodeValue);
      break;
  }
};