diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
index 21c3b3f43d9..31fadc789d4 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/view_form.js
@@ -1189,36 +1189,19 @@ instance.web.form.FormRenderingEngine = instance.web.form.FormRenderingEngineInt
             });
         }
     },
-    view_arch_to_dom_node: function(arch) {
-        // Historic mess for views arch
-        //
-        // server:
-        //      -> got xml as string
-        //      -> parse to xml and manipulate domains and contexts
-        //      -> convert to json
-        //  client:
-        //      -> got view as json
-        //      -> convert back to xml as string
-        //      -> parse it as xml doc (manipulate button@type for IE)
-        //      -> convert back to string
-        //      -> parse it as dom element with jquery
-        //      -> for each widget, convert node to json
-        //
-        // Wow !!!
-        var xml = instance.web.json_node_to_xml(arch);
-
-        var doc = $.parseXML('<div class="oe_form">' + xml + '</div>');
+    get_arch_fragment: function() {
+        var doc = this.fvg.arch_doc.documentElement.cloneNode(true);
+        // IE won't allow custom button@type and will revert it to spec default : 'submit'
         $('button', doc).each(function() {
             $(this).attr('data-button-type', $(this).attr('type')).attr('type', 'button');
         });
-        xml = instance.web.xml_to_str(doc);
-        return $(xml);
+        return $('<div class="oe_form"/>').append(doc);
     },
     render_to: function($target) {
         var self = this;
         this.$target = $target;
 
-        this.$form = this.view_arch_to_dom_node(this.fvg.arch);
+        this.$form = this.get_arch_fragment();
 
         this.process_version();