- From: Tim Down <timdown@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:44:49 +0000
- To: Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Have you looked at the createContextualFragment() method of Range?
http://html5.org/specs/dom-parsing.html#dom-range-createcontextualfragment
Tim
On 3 November 2011 23:03, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be useful if there was a way to take a String of HTML and parse it
> into a document fragment. This should work even if the HTML string contains
> elements that are invalid in the "in body" insertion mode.
> Something like this code should work:
> var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();
> frag.innerHTML = "<tr><td>hello</td></tr>"
> someTable.appendChild(frag)
> At present, this can sometimes be achieved if the context of the HTML string
> is known in advance. However, this is not always the case. For instance,
> jQuery supplies an API that looks like this:
> $("html string").appendTo("#table")
> At the time that jQuery is creating the document fragment for the HTML
> string, it does not yet know what its context will be. This approach is used
> in order to enable convenient setup code. Here is a very contrived example
> to illustrate the point:
> var frag = $("html string")
> // replace the HTML content of a descendent <span> with the contents of
> its data-title attribute
> frag.find("span[data-title]").html(function() { return
> this.attr("data-title"); })
> html.appendTo("#table")
> In general, this makes it easier to build abstractions that work with
> Strings of HTML, without always needing to make sure consumers of the
> abstraction know and pass in the existing context.
> This would probably require a new, laxer insertion mode, which would behave
> similarly to the body insertion mode, but with different semantics in the "A
> start tag whose tag name is one of: "caption", "col", "colgroup", "frame",
> "head", "tbody", "td", "tfoot", "th", "thead", "tr"" case. One way to handle
> those cases would be to immediately enter an appropriate insertion mode if
> an unexpected tag was found. For instance, if a start tr tag was encountered
> "at the root", the parser could go into "in table" or "in table body"
> insertion mode instead of treating it like a parse error and ignoring the
> token.
> -- Yehuda
>
> --
> Yehuda Katz
> (ph) 718.877.1325
>
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