Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
Being able to send wf-but-ns-illformed documents would not make much sense if you couldn't also read them back in
Which you can, with a non-NS-aware XML parser.
and the odds that some wf-but-ns-illformed has been created deliberately for use with XHR as opposed to being created due to some mistake, seem too low to make supporting this worthwhile.
The problem is that figuring out whether a DOM fragment can usefully be serialized as a ns-wellformed string is a bit of a pain. I have no faith in the spec being interoperably implemented as written.
-Boris
