Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Julian Reschke wrote:
For this one I used Dom L1 methods to create this document:
<foo><x:y/></foo>
which isn't XMLNS-wellformed.
I'm not sure I see the problem here, to be honest... Using the
non-namespace-aware DOM methods one can indeed create documents that
require a non-namespace-aware XML parser to roundtrip.
Yes.
Since the UA has no idea what sort of XML parser is being used on the
server side, I'm not sure it makes sense to bail on attempts to
serialize such documents. In particular, if the document _is_ parsed
with a non-namespace-aware XML parser, there is no problem.
That's true. But it's not what the XHR spec requires:
"Serialize data into a namespace well-formed XML document and encoded
using the encoding given by data.inputEncoding, when not null, or UTF-8
otherwise. Or, if this fails because the Document cannot be serialized
act as if data is null." --
<http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/#send>
So the spec requires silent data loss here, which I think is an
extremely bad idea.
BR, Julian
