- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:39:47 -0500
On 11/11/09 11:16 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > I'm pretty sure that XHR is used for screen-scraping beyond Wikipedia, Since it'd fail any time the data is not well-formed XML, I'd actually expect such usage to be rare. It's not all that common to find "XHTML" on the web that happens to be well-formed XML. > Could some reasonably minimal, distinctive doctype be invented that > would avoid the problem but not make the document look to humans and > validators like it thinks it's some old version of XHTML? Yes, but browsers would have to add explicit support for it. > Also, is this a wider problem? Are there any other tools besides > browsers that might be magically allowing named entities for some > doctypes only? Sure; anything that actually goes and loads the DTD. -Boris
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