Re: Unable to round-trip tab character using XMLHttpRequest and XMLSerializer

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>> This should be expected, but the question remains: How can a character 
>> entity be written using XMLSerializer?
> 
> It can't.  The point of XMLSerializer is to expose a very simple easy to 
> use serialization model.  Trusted callers who need something more 
> complicated can use nsIDocumentEncoder with all its complexity directly 
> (though I'm not sure even that will let you entity-encode tabs, 
> necessarily).

Isn't it a bug that we're not creating a character entity in this case 
though? We're creating entities for characters that would produce 
invalid XML (<, &, >, etc) while serializing textnodes, so why not 
create them for whitespace when serializing attributes.

/ Jonas