- From: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:51:25 +0400
- To: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Hi! The current draft specifies the following algorithm for parsing response XML: ------------------------------------------------------- ... 3. Parse the response entity body following the rules from the XML specifications. Let the result be parsed document. If this fails (unsupported character encoding, namespace well-formedness error et cetera) terminate these steps return null. [XML] [XMLNS] 4. Return an object implementing the Document interface representing the parsed document. ------------------------------------------------------- Is it intentional that other interfaces are not mentioned at all? Some browsers create objects implementing HTMLDocument interface, and it is not entirely obvious how this should be done. Even for plain XML documents, following rules from XML specifications may not be straightforward, for example, some people are surprised that XSL transformations are not appiled to responseXML. If it is not currently feasible to fully specify the behavior, perhaps a note mentioning that could be added at least. - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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