[Imps] [whatwg] Standard DOM Serialization? [was :Common Subset]

[James Graham]

Sam Ruby wrote:
> Henri Sivonen wrote:
>> On Dec 11, 2006, at 17:29, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>>>   * For element start, write "<" followed by the element name,
>>> followed by attributes, followed by ">".
>>  * For element end, write "</" followed by the element name, followed by 
>> ">".
> 
> Don't do that for elements which are always empty.
> 
> Also, as Anne pointed out, there is a precise serialization defined for 
> innerHtml.

So, does it make any sense to use the innerHTML serialization, along with a 
similar json-based format as is used for the tokenizer tests for the parser 
unittests. Something like:

{"tests":
[

{"description":"test description",
"input":"some input string",
"errors":[list of parse errors],
"output":"innerhtml for resulting DOM"}

]
}

Since different implementations will report errors differently, I would imagine 
a common testsuite would be useful for checking the correct number of errors are 
produced. The big disadvantage of this format is the fact that the innerHTML 
string will have to be both HTML escaped and json escaped, leading to a high 
number of noise characters.

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