Re: XMLHttpRequest.responseXML and invalid XML documents

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>>> - FireFox *does* return null if the document is sent as text/html
>> Or anything else that doesn't look like an XML MIME type.
> 
> Personally I'd quite like responseXML to return a Document if the content 
> is text/html, since it can just as easily be parsed into a DOM as XML can.

This, unfortunately, strays from the stated goal of specifying "what 
works". I guess we should discuss at some point if we want to keep that 
goal or not.

/ Jonas