- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 12:44:02 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > No, I was simply trying to say XHR should not generate output it cannot > parse itself. I'm not sure I see why not, to be honest. But I can accept that this might be a desirable design principle in some circumstances. > DOM Level 3 Core Appendix B.1 should define how to fix the tree. Indeed. Might be worth referencing it normatively here. > You picked a document > that cannot exist when building it directly from a plain text document, > so that this does not very strictly speaking roundtrip does not seem an > issue to me. Agreed; I was just pointing it out because it can easily cause developer confusion and non-interoperable results, as demonstrated. -Boris
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