- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 23:23:40 -0400
Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> or is there something that DOMParser / XMLSerializer can do that document.innerHTML cannot?
Ignoring the non-web-facing functionality (like parsing from and
serializing to streams), and speaking only of Gecko's implementations,
basically the following:
1) DOMParser can parse as a given content type (in theory XML vs HTML;
I assume that if document.innerHTML doesn't do that yet it could be
changed to do so).
2) DOMParser can parse from a byte array instead of a string; this
makes it a little easier to work with XML in encodings other than
UTF-8 or UTF-16.
2) XMLSerializer can serialize a subtree rooted at a given node without
removing the node from its current location in the DOM.
-Boris
Received on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:23:40 UTC