- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:04:28 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Simon Pieters wrote: > > > > > What about when there are illegal characters? > > > > The DOM doesn't let you create those cases. > > Sure it does. e.g. the DOM allows e.g. control characters in various > places that XML doesn't. I haven't looked into every production in XML > to see if it differs from the DOM, but I guess you can spec something > that is catch-all, like "if the node contains a character that isn't > allowed according to the corresponding XML production" or some such... > though listing all cases is nicer. That's what the spec now says. > > I'm tempted to allow the serialisation of PIs with the name "xml", and > > to allow the splitting of CDATA blocks with ]]>. Opinions? > > The former wouldn't result in well-formed XML, but the latter is cool. I've decided to not allow it for now. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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