[whatwg] DOM3 Load and Save for simple parsing/serialization?

[Brett Zamir]

Brett Zamir wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Maciej Stachowiak<mjs at apple.com>  wrote:
>>    
>>> On May 19, 2009, at 11:49 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Brett Zamir<brettz9 at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> Has any thought been given to standardizing on at least a part of DOM
>>>>> Level
>>>>> 3 Load and Save in HTML5?
>>>>>          
>>>> The Load and Save APIs in DOM 3 are much too complicated IMHO so I'd
>>>> like to see something simpler standardized.
>>>>
>>>> We've had parsing and serializing APIs in Firefox for ages. Would be
>>>> very exited to see someone put in effort to get their API cleaned up
>>>> and standardized.
>>>>
>>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOMParser
>>>> https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XMLSerializer
>>>>        
>>> WebKit actually implements most of these. I think it would make sense to
>>> publish these as a WebApps spec. But these classes don't do any loading or
>>> saving, just parsing and serializing.
>>>      
>>
>> Doesn't XMLHttpRequest do all the load/save that is needed? I don't
>> know how would could standardize save beyond that without relying on
>> something like WebDAV.
>>
>>    
>>> Document.load would be the simplified
>>> load/save method that it would make sense to standardize IMO, since Firefox
>>> has it and it is needed for Web compatibility. I am concerned though that
>>> Document.load() allows for synchronous network loads.
>>>      
>>
>> I'm certainly no fan of Document.load() and wish it would go away. In
>> fact we have decided not to add any additional features such as CORS
>> or progress event support in order to discourage its use and move
>> people to XHR instead.
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
>>
>>    
>
> Does Ajax at least have theoretical support for loading entities from 
> an external DTD, as I presume a DOM method must? (Would be nice to 
> hear from some others on that separate "External document subset 
> support" thread too, especially to know whether all the browsers are 
> just not inclined to ever implement this (despite all of the off-web 
> documents that use them...))

Sorry, guess I can answer the first part of my question, yes it is 
theoretically possible... Per 
http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#responsexml , "Return the XML 
response entity body." -> "Parse the response entity body into a 
document tree following the rules from the XML specifications."

But I'm still holding out hope that the ability to at least parse an 
external DTD for entities alone would be considered...

Brett
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