- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 19:18:24 -0500
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > Being able to send wf-but-ns-illformed documents would not make much > sense if you couldn't also read them back in Which you can, with a non-NS-aware XML parser. > and the odds that some > wf-but-ns-illformed has been created deliberately for use with XHR > as opposed to being created due to some mistake, seem too low to make > supporting this worthwhile. The problem is that figuring out whether a DOM fragment can usefully be serialized as a ns-wellformed string is a bit of a pain. I have no faith in the spec being interoperably implemented as written. -Boris
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