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

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Well.  Putting a literal tab in an attribute does not produce "invalid" 
> XML by any means.

Right, but it also doesn't correctly serialize the DOM.

> But yes, I think that the lack of round-trippability is a bug.

Mark, please file a bug on this so that we can track it. Unfortunately 
it is unlikely to get fixed for Firefox 3 unless someone steps up and 
provides a patch.

/ Jonas