[whatwg] Implement XMLHttpRequest interface subset onHTMLDocument

[Kristof Zelechovski]

Providing the original document tree before transformation in
HTMLDocument.responseXML makes sense.  In that case, the Document returned
should be immutable, just as a DOMString is; I am not sure how to declare it
in IDL.

Chris

 

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From: westonruter at gmail.com [mailto:westonruter at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Weston Ruter
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:35 PM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: whatwg at whatwg.org; Ian Hickson; Anne van Kesteren
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Implement XMLHttpRequest interface subset
onHTMLDocument

 

This is not completely strange or unexpected construct, since window ==
window.self.

Furthermore, having a HTMLDocument.responseXML would be useful in the case
that an XSLT stylesheet outputs HTML, plain text, or something else; in such
a case, it would be very useful to get the original responseXML. Note that I
don't envision this responseXML being any sort of shadow DOM; I mean, if
XSLT did transform the XML data, making a change to responseXML would not
cause the XSLT engine to re-parse the updated responseXML. Maybe this would
be useful, but it seems overly complicated.



On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Kristof Zelechovski
<giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote:

The meaning of "HTMLDocument.responseXML" looks a bit strange and
unexpected: a property of an object bound to the object itself by
definition.  I would suggest leaving that one out.

Chris

 

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From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org
[mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Weston Ruter
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:19 PM
To: Kristof Zelechovski
Cc: whatwg at whatwg.org; Ian Hickson; Anne van Kesteren
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Implement XMLHttpRequest interface subset
onHTMLDocument

 

If the interface were implemented as-is, document.responseXML would just be
a reference back to the document object.

So if the document is XML, then document === document.responseXML

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Kristof Zelechovski
<giecrilj at stegny.2a.pl> wrote:

What should the property "HTMLDocument.responseXML" represent?

Chris

 

 

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