- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:17:45 -0400
- To: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org
On 10/29/12 8:58 PM, Johan Sundström wrote: > Serializing a complete HTML document DOM to a string is surprisingly > hard in javascript. I thought there were plans to put innerHTML on Document. Did that go nowhere? > As a fairly seasoned javascript hacker I figured > this might do it: > > document.doctype + document.documentElement.outerHTML This seems lossy in many cases (most obviously: when the HTML uses conditional comments, though there are also various XHTML-specific issues). > The most useful implementation would IMO be a native one > that reproducing the doctype, as it was formatted in the source > document. That might be worth doing independent of the serialization issue. -Boris
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