- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:30:56 -0400
- To: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>
- CC: www-dom <www-dom@w3.org>
On 6/12/12 1:48 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote: > Inserting doctype nodes has no effect on the mode of the document > though, so it's already possible to produce a broken serialization (one > in the wrong mode). For instance you can remove the doctype node and > then serialize or swap the doctype node and then serialize. Sure. The question is whether the common-case behavior should be sane. > In practice I don't think anyone inserts these in the wrong order Well, since some current UAs do throw in this situation, I'm pretty sure you're right about that. > (or insert doctypes at all since they have no effect). The most likely way a doctype would be inserted is if some script is blindly doing node processing on existing nodes without worrying about their types. -Boris
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