Re: XMLHttpRequest.responseXML and invalid XML documents

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:09:42 +0200, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>  
wrote:

>>> All major browsers return an empty document instead under most of
>>> these conditions.
>
> There's an open <ednote> on this. Basically people might do:
>
>    .responseXML.getElementsByTagName()
>
> ... of course, that would fail in cases where the document is sent as  
> text/html and probably others...

I'm worried that content will break with code like the above if we extend  
the scenarios where returning null is mandatory.

>> Gecko doesn't ever return an empty document from XMLHttpRequest.   
>> Sometimes it returns a bogus document with some "parseerror" markup in  
>> it due to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289714>; that's  
>> a bug that needs to be fixed. [...]

OK, thanks for explaining.

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