[whatwg] DOMParser / XMLSerializer

[Boris Zbarsky]

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> or is there something that DOMParser / XMLSerializer can do that document.innerHTML cannot?

Ignoring the non-web-facing functionality (like parsing from and 
serializing to streams), and speaking only of Gecko's implementations, 
basically the following:

1)  DOMParser can parse as a given content type (in theory XML vs HTML;
     I assume that if document.innerHTML doesn't do that yet it could be
     changed to do so).
2)  DOMParser can parse from a byte array instead of a string; this
     makes it a little easier to work with XML in encodings other than
     UTF-8 or UTF-16.
2)  XMLSerializer can serialize a subtree rooted at a given node without
     removing the node from its current location in the DOM.

-Boris