[whatwg] Getting .innerHTML in XML well-formedness issues

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Simon Pieters wrote:
> > 
> > > What about when there are illegal characters?
> > 
> > The DOM doesn't let you create those cases.
> 
> Sure it does. e.g. the DOM allows e.g. control characters in various 
> places that XML doesn't. I haven't looked into every production in XML 
> to see if it differs from the DOM, but I guess you can spec something 
> that is catch-all, like "if the node contains a character that isn't 
> allowed according to the corresponding XML production" or some such... 
> though listing all cases is nicer.

That's what the spec now says.


> > I'm tempted to allow the serialisation of PIs with the name "xml", and 
> > to allow the splitting of CDATA blocks with ]]>. Opinions?
> 
> The former wouldn't result in well-formed XML, but the latter is cool.

I've decided to not allow it for now.

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