Re: Prefixes and serializing XML

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>
> The spec says:
> 
> "User agents may adjust prefixes and namespace declarations in the 
> serialization (and indeed might be forced to do so in some cases to 
> obtain namespace-well-formed XML)."
> 
> "If any of the following error cases are found in the DOM subtree being 
> serialized, then the algorithm raises an INVALID_STATE_ERR exception 
> instead of returning a string:"
> 
> "A node with a prefix or local name containing a U+003A COLON (":")."

Fair enough.

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