Re: The future of XML related technologies in Mozilla

Ian Hickson wrote:
> HTML5 has document.innerHTML

Only for HTMLDocument.

>    var d = document.implementation.createDocument(null, null, null);

createDocument doesn't create an HTMLDocument, last I checked.

In addition to which, for serialization purposes this is all patently 
insufficient without jumping through a _lot_ of hoops (one of the hoops 
being that innerHTML doesn't serialize the node in question, so the only 
way to do the equivalent of outerHTML is to import the subtree into a 
brand-new HTMLDocument, etc).  Especially if, God forbid, you were to 
want to serialize SVG or MathML or some such.

I also fully expect people to demand configurable serialization at some 
point.  I think the default serializer should "do something sane" and 
there should be a way to configure it...

One other note.  For purposes of parsing HTML, it's not even clear what 
the right behavior for random fragments is (which is why the innerHTML 
does some whack things and one reason why DOMParser doesn't handle 
HTML).  It'd be good to figure this out.

-Boris