Re: Parsing of HTML fragments

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Dão Gottwald wrote:
> > 
> > If this WG adopts the WHATWG draft, I imagine this would be handled by 
> > the innerHTML parsing mode.
> 
> Um, not necessarily. A feed consumer doesn't have to use innerHTML to 
> insert fragments into a given document. In fact, HTML fragments can be 
> delivered as XML nodes instead of CDATA.

The "innerHTML parsing mode" isn't restricted to innerHTML; it's just a 
way to parse fragments with a particular context. You can use the 
algorithm described for innerHTML in the spec for other purposes, such as 
this one.

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