Bug 21306 – XMLSerializer problem

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: XML

[Martin Marko]

Having the following code:
var dom=new DOMParser().parseFromString("<root/>","text/xml");
var n=dom.documentElement;
var str="/>";
n.textContent=str;
this.assertEquals(n.textContent,str);
var strSer=new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(dom);

I would expect to receive the following:
<root>/&lt;</root>
But XMLSerializer produce
<root>/></root> 

I there any explanation ?
Is there any workaround to get string representing "Well Formed XML" ?
I have not found any explanation for this yet

BTW: Firefox/2.0.0.14 produces correct (expected) result
thanx

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This is fixed in nightly builds, you can download one from <http://nightly.webkit.org> to verify that.

> Is there any workaround to get string representing "Well Formed XML" ?

I believe that "<root>/></root> " is well-formed XML - the only characters that need escaping are '&' and '<'. We had to add escaping for several other characters to be match other browsers, and not because any spec required that.

[Martin Marko]

You have forced me to go back to specs,
YOU ARE RIGHT,IT MAY be escaped 
...however this causes interoperability problems...
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-well-formed

The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) MUST NOT appear in their literal form, except when used as markup delimiters, or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they are needed elsewhere, they MUST be escaped using either numeric character references or the strings "&amp;" and "&lt;" respectively. The right angle bracket (>) may be represented using the string "&gt;", and MUST, for compatibility, be escaped using either "&gt;" or a character reference when it appears in the string "]]>" in content, when that string is not marking the end of a CDATA section.


Thanx....