On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Charles Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:23 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Charles Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Now that DOM4 includes DOMString as an argument type for Node methods, I'd >>> like to have a clear and easy path to serialize a JSON object into an XML >>> DOMString. >>> >>> It's not a trivial task. Any takers? >>> >>> Example: >>> >>> JSON.toXML({div:'Hello world'}); >> >> I'm curious why you would want such a thing. You can store DOM trees >> as strings and revive them when used. You can transmit DOM across XHR >> either as a string or, soon, directly as a document. >> >> I don't see a reason to store DOM into an alternative JSON structure. > > JSON is widely more popular than XML for a lot of APIs. People use > JSON.stringify an parse quite a bit. I may be misunderstanding what it is you > mean by DOM.
The first paragraph of your original email talked about the Node methods now accepting DOMStrings. Since you then asked for a way to convert JSON to a DOMString, I reasonably assumed the two statements were related. I guess I should be more direct, then. What problem are you attempting to solve with this feature? ~TJ
