On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:41:59 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the document was not an XML document, or if the document could
not be parsed (due to an XML well-formedness error or unsupported
character encoding, for instance), returns null.
All major browsers return an empty document instead under most of
these conditions.
There's an open <ednote> on this. Basically people might do:
.responseXML.getElementsByTagName()
... of course, that would fail in cases where the document is sent as
text/html and probably others...
Gecko doesn't ever return an empty document from XMLHttpRequest.
Sometimes it returns a bogus document with some "parseerror" markup in
it due to <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289714>; that's
a bug that needs to be fixed. [...]
That bug talks about making the document empty, instead of returning null
as the specification says.
Is it the plan to follow what the specification says or does it need to be
changed for the above reason for example?
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