- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:02:31 -0500
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: >> Since the UA has no idea what sort of XML parser is being used on the >> server side, I'm not sure it makes sense to bail on attempts to >> serialize such documents. In particular, if the document _is_ parsed >> with a non-namespace-aware XML parser, there is no problem. > > That's true. But it's not what the XHR spec requires: > > "Serialize data into a namespace well-formed XML document and encoded > using the encoding given by data.inputEncoding, when not null, or UTF-8 > otherwise. Or, if this fails because the Document cannot be serialized > act as if data is null." -- > <http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/#send> > > So the spec requires silent data loss here, which I think is an > extremely bad idea. Agreed. I think the spec needs changing to allow this use case, personally... -Boris
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