Publics-WebApps has arrived at agreement on an extension to the fragment parsing algorithm which doesn't require a context element. The basic idea is that the parser picks a context element based on the contents of the provided markup.
The full semantics are described here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2012AprJun/0883.html This mechanism is exposed through a new API call: Document.parse(). It takes a DOMString of markup and returns a document fragment which contains the parsed DOM. There are a few details remaining to be sorted out and this feature will need spec changes to land in both HTML (which contains the parser) as well a DOM Parsing and Serialization (which will define the API) - the editors of the respective specs are on board with the proposal. I've worked with abarth, eseidel, rniwa, ojan & darin in prepping the patch, which I'd like to submit now for review. There will be some follow on work, but the bulk will land with: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84646 Let me know if anyone has questions or concerns. Cheers Rafael _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev