- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:22:12 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com>
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010, Adrian Bateman wrote: > On Thursday, January 21, 2010 4:58 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Adrian Bateman wrote: > > > > > > While reviewing the spec, we found the following apparent > > > inconsistency and we'd like to understand the reasons for this: > > > > > > In section 3.5.1/3.5.2 [1], Opening the input stream and Closing the > > > input stream, the spec says to throw INVALID_STATE_ERR if the Document > > > is an XML document. > > > > > > In section 3.5.3/3.5.4, document.write and document.writeln, the spec > > > says to throw INVALID_ACCESS_ERR if invoked on XML documents. > > > > > > Is there a reason why these are different exceptions? > > > > Not really. Would changing the document.write and document.writeln > > exception to INVALID_STATE_ERR work for you? > > That would be great. We'd prefer them to be consistent and > INVALID_STATE_ERR seems like the best choice. Ok, assume the change is made. I'm in the middle of edits right now so can't make the change, but I'll add this e-mail to my pile and will make the changes in due course. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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