- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:00:02 +0200
- To: "Alexey Proskuryakov" <ap-carbon@rambler.ru>, "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:51:25 +0200, Alexey Proskuryakov <ap-carbon@rambler.ru> wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------- > ... > 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. The HTML 5 specification requires that HTMLDocument is implemented for each object implementing the Document interface. > 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. Any suggestions on what we could say? -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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