- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:47:40 +0100
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel@glazman.org>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Norm Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Daniel Glazman <daniel@glazman.org> wrote: > Honestly, removing xmlStandalone, xmlVersion and xmlEncoding is > a weird decision since all rendering engines keep internal non- > scriptable versions of them to be able to serialize all things XML. > > http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/content/base/public/nsIDocument.h#1016 > > http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/114059 It's not entirely clear to me what the motivation was reading through that WebKit bug. Nonetheless, much internal state throughout the web platform is not exposed. I don't think that's particularly weird. > And if you need a use case, as I said earlier, an editor BlueGriffon > need access to the xml declaration to handle polyglot correctly. I don't think polyglot markup is worthy of our time: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0042.html -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
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