- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:58:19 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Adrian Bateman wrote: > > While reviewing the spec, we found the following apparent inconsistency > and we'd like to understand the reasons for this: > > In section 3.5.1/3.5.2 [1], Opening the input stream and Closing the > input stream, the spec says to throw INVALID_STATE_ERR if the Document > is an XML document. > > In section 3.5.3/3.5.4, document.write and document.writeln, the spec > says to throw INVALID_ACCESS_ERR if invoked on XML documents. > > Is there a reason why these are different exceptions? Not really. Would changing the document.write and document.writeln exception to INVALID_STATE_ERR work for you? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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