Re: [webcomponents] Template element parser changes => Proposal for adding DocumentFragment.innerHTML

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> However, I'm not strongly opposed to adding innerHTML to
> DocumentFragment if we also add a method on Document that parses a
> string using the HTML parser regardless of the HTMLness flag of the
> document and returns a DocumentFragment (or has an optional extra
> argument for forcing XML parsing explicitly).
>

Just a side note, but at least parsing XML seems to be fairly sane today. I
haven't really done any testing around this, but it seems like this would
get you parsing of arbitrary XML fragments, including leading and trailing
text nodes:

(new DOMParser).parseFromString( "<x>" + string + "</x>", "text/xml"
).documentElement.childNodes

Obviously this is overly verbose compared to document.parse( string, flag ).