Note, I filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17775 to make this change. From: wycats@gmail.com [mailto:wycats@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yehuda Katz Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 9:12 PM To: Tony Ross Cc: Joćo Eiras; public-webapps@w3.org Subject: Re: DOMParser Errors Should Be Exceptions If this is the case, can we consider changing the spec? Yehuda Katz (ph) 718.877.1325 On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Tony Ross <tross@microsoft.com<mailto:tross@microsoft.com>> wrote: > From: Joćo Eiras [mailto:joaoe@opera.com<mailto:joaoe@opera.com>] > Opera thrown an exception long time ago and since version 9.5 it changed > the behavior to return the bogus parsererror tree because it caused > yahoo mail to fail back them (among other things). > > While the current behavior of returning the parsererror document is > inappropriate, I afraid it also unchangeable. Has this been examined recently? In IE9+ DOMParser throws an exception when an XML parsing error is encountered. I've yet to hear of this causing a problem. -Tony
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