[jQuery] Obsolete xml data islands

[jQuery] Obsolete xml data islands


I am starting an asp.net project, and I would like to use javascript
and client-side
xml processing to make for a more responsive interface. Initial
prototypes look good,
but actually getting the xml using asp.net seems a bit tricky. A <xml>
data island worked well,
but this element is dropped from msxml6. It seems like there will be
browser issues even in a pure IE shop. The proposed solutions I found
for these problems have almost scared me off client-side processing.
Does jQuery promise any future-proofing along these lines? -- Dave