Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Jul 17, 2009, at 17:13, Shane McCarron wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
What you say is true for all practical purposes when talking about
"the DOM" in browsers. It's not necessarily true in practice and per
spec for all kinds of things called "the DOM".
Okay. How about per the HTML5 spec? If it is not, then we would like
it to be. To whom do we send that comment?
Per spec, what Sam said holds when the section
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset is
not invoked. When that section is invoked, then what Sam said doesn't
always hold. You may safely assume that browsers won't invoke the
section but other classes of products may.
You can send comments to public-html-comments or to public-html if you
are a participant in the HTML WG or to the WHATWG list if you are
subscribed to that list or you can file a bug in the W3C Bugzilla.
I don't expect
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset to
change substantially, because the rules recounted there are necessary
when you have an XML API that throws on certain things and you can't
change the API. (For example, if people want to use the JDK DOM, the JDK
DOM is what it is.)
I have tried the following with Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari, and Chrome.
Given that each show the attribute, that is the one thing I don't
expect to change. As to the spec, perhaps you are right and it may
permit others to not interoperate with browsers and still claim to be
conformant.
<html>
<head>
<title>test colon in attributes name</title>
</head>
<body>
<ul id='list'></ul>
<script>
var list = document.getElementById('list');
list.setAttribute('xmlns:dc',
'http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-namespace/');
var attrs = list.attributes;
var length = attrs.length;
for (var i=0; i<length; i++) {
var value = attrs[i].nodeValue;
if (!value) continue;
value = value.replace(/&/, '&').replace(/</, '<').
replace(/>/, '>').replace(/"/, '"');
var li = document.createElement('li');
var text = document.createTextNode(attrs[i].nodeName+'="'+value + '"');
li.appendChild(text);
list.appendChild(li);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
- Sam Ruby
