- From: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:47:51 +0200
- To: public-html <public-html@w3.org>
(This is part of my detailed review of the Document Object Model section.) Consider the following document: <h:p xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><x/></h:p> When getting innerHTML on the root element, should the serialization declare the no namespace explicitly as in <x xmlns=""/>? (I think it should because setting innerHTML will imply namespace declarations so it might change meaning if you insert it somewhere else with innerHTML.) Also, the spec says: In an XML context, the innerHTML DOM attribute on HTMLElements and HTMLDocuments, on getting, must return a string in the form of an internal general parsed entity [...] ...and then goes on to say that some DocumentType nodes must raise an exception, however internal general parsed entities can't have doctypes in the first place. Are doctypes to be removed from the serialization? If so, why should some of them raise an exception? Or should the attribute on the HTMLDocument interface return a string in the form of a document? If the latter, should an exception be raised if there is no root element? Finally, the spec lists the following as something that throws: A Text node whose data contains characters that are not matched by the XML Char production. [XML] But Text data is not the only case that might not match the Char production in XML. Comment data, CDATASection data, ProcessingInstruction target, and, I think, Attr value. -- Simon Pieters Opera Software
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