How to make XML parsing compatible with IE

Internet Explorer is annoying as usual about this and you need to make exceptions for it.  Here's what you can do:

type: 'GET',
                        url: 'photos.xml',
                        dataType: ($.browser.msie) ? "text" : "xml", //if Browser is internet explorer, the datatype is text, otherwise xml.
                        success: getXML,
                        complete:

And then in my "success" function, add this:

if ($.browser.msie) {
    var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
    xmlDoc.loadXML(xml);
    xml = xmlDoc;
}