On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:41:22PM -0700, Eric Seidel wrote:
> 
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:45:33AM -0700, Eric Seidel wrote:
> >>Another example is when parsing document fragments for things such as
> >>setInnerHTML in an xhtml context...  There we need to build up a
> >>"namespace stack" representing the current document context before
> >>doing the actual parse.
> >
> >  I don't understand, either it's XHTML in which case it is XML
> >and an XML parser should work or it's not. Trying to parse XML island
> >in non well-formed XML'like HTML opens the door to so many error case
> >that loosing the namespace sounds just liek a small side effect.
> 
> As far as I understand, this is completely valid javascript + xhtml,  
> which we'd like to support (and I do currently, through some of my  
> own hacks):
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xmlns:svg="http:// 
> www.w3.org/2000/svg">
> <script type="text/javascript">
> <![CDATA[
>     var e = document.getElementById('test');
>     e.innerHTML = '<svg:svg></svg:svg>';
> }
> ]]>
> </script>
> <body>
> <div id="test"/>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> NOTE: setting innerHTML in an xhtml context expects an xmlfragment,  
> not an html one.  Bad naming, I know.  :)

  Okay, I understand better, one case of use of the namespace from the PCDATA
and not from the markup itself... nasty :-)

> Unfortunately use of the libxml SAX2 parser for this "setInnerHTML"  
> xml parsing barfs due to the fact that the xml fragment we're parsing  

  It should complain but still produce a tree though.

> does not contain all of the necessary namespace definitions.  Yet, as  
> far as I know, this the above code should be valid, since the xml  
> fragment should be evaluated in the context of the document.
> 
> Currently I support this
> 
> Thoughts?

  This is a bit far stretched IMHO, but I understand, maybe I can add a small 
API to add in-scope namespace like that, I find that slightly disturbing though
the parsing really should be context free ...

Daniel

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