- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:18:03 -0500
On 2/25/11 3:56 PM, raf at ratherodd.com wrote: > I realise this is a niche scenario that is not often encountered, but I'd > be interested in the rationale behind not implementing it, or whether > others think it would be a good idea to add this feature. Boris Zbarsky > indicated something about contexts to parse in that I didn't understand, > so hopefully someone can enlighten me. If you want to parse this string: <form><tr><td>Some text</td></tr></form> then the DOM it produces depends on whether it's being parsed in the context of a <table> parent element or not. Try setting the innerHTML of a <table> and a <div> to the above string, and examine the resulting DOM trees. That's what I meant when I said that to properly parse a string you need to know the context it's being parsed in. -Boris
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