On 2/25/11 3:56 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I realise this is a niche scenario that is not often encountered, but I'd
be interested in the rationale behind not implementing it, or whether
others think it would be a good idea to add this feature. Boris Zbarsky
indicated something about contexts to parse in that I didn't understand,
so hopefully someone can enlighten me.
If you want to parse this string:
<form><tr><td>Some text</td></tr></form>
then the DOM it produces depends on whether it's being parsed in the
context of a <table> parent element or not. Try setting the innerHTML
of a <table> and a <div> to the above string, and examine the resulting
DOM trees.
That's what I meant when I said that to properly parse a string you need
to know the context it's being parsed in.
-Boris
