[uf-discuss] Live Clipboard and uF escaping (was Fwd: 0.91 Spec comment: escaped markup is harmful)

[Scott Reynen]

On Apr 6, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Danny Ayers wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand why Matt suggests XML data might have to be
> delivered as both XML and escaped as well, but he gets into
> browser/DOM territory, a place presumably well-known around this list
> - thoughts appreciated.

I don't understand everything Matt says, but what I do know might  
help: browsers use different DOMs, with different functionality, for  
XML or HTML.  The HTML DOM is generally easier to use, sometimes even  
for XML data.  For example, if you treat XHTML as XML, you can't use  
most getElementsByClassName() functions on it, which makes parsing  
microformats much more difficult.  But if you just dump the raw text  
of the same XML in the .innerHTML of some HTML node (even one that  
isn't in the document tree), you can use the full range of HTML DOM  
functions on it.

Peace,
Scott