Re: [XHR] send() argument

* Hallvord R. M. Steen wrote:
>A nice feature in Opera's implementation is that you can pass any Node to  
>send, and Opera sends the serialisation. I think that is very useful and  
>really wouldn't like it to be made nonconformant by the spec.
>
>Example:
>
>client.open('POST', 'foo.cgi');
>client.send( document.getElementById('bar') );

And what is supposed to happen if the Node is an attribute node, or a
document fragment, or an entity reference? In particular, which MIME
type should be inferred from the content? And what if the Node is a
HTMLElement? What do you suggest should user agents do for code as you
have it above if they do not support sending arbitrary Nodes?
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