document.write() for XML

by **PMB9** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:59 pm

Are there any reasons against document.write() for XML? Why don't do it like with innerHTML? May you can introduce document.XMLwrite().

Code: Select all: <h1>Example page</h1> <script><![CDATA[ document.write("<p>Hello World</p>") ]]></script> → no XML problem <p>Hello <script><![CDATA[ document.write("World</p>") ]]></script> → document.write will return an error because of malformed XML code ("World</p>")

by **zcorpan** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:48 am

What do you do when the script element is the root element?

by **JAB Creations** » Fri Mar 27, 2009 5:14 am

document.write is proprietary JavaScript and has nothing to do with HTML5. It's time you spent some time reading about JavaScript nodes (which is software developer speak for elements).

Example...
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_node.asp

by **zcorpan** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:53 am

JAB Creations wrote:document.write is proprietary

No
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/le ... thod-write
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-HTML/h ... D-75233634

JAB Creations wrote:JavaScript

No, it's DOM

JAB Creations wrote:and has nothing to do with HTML5.

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/cu ... ent.write()

JAB Creations wrote:It's time you spent some time reading about JavaScript nodes (which is software developer speak for elements).

Example...
http://www.w3schools.com/dom/dom_node.asp

JavaScript doesn't have nodes, it has objects. The DOM has nodes, but nodes are not the same thing as elements...

by **PMB9** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:25 am

zcorpan wrote:What do you do when the script element is the root element?

Let's see what firefox does with text/html:

Code: Select all: <!DOCTYPE HTML> <script> document.write('<title>Example page</title>') document.write('<p>Hello World!</p>') </script>

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Code: Select all: <html><head> <script> document.write('<title>Example page</title>') document.write('<p>Hello World!</p>') </script><title>Example page</title></head><body><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>

So I propose for this XML example:

Code: Select all: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <script xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><![CDATA[ document.write('<title>Example page</title>') document.write('<p>Hello World!</p>') ]]></script>

-->

Code: Select all: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> <script><![CDATA[ document.write('<title>Example page</title>') document.write('<p>Hello World!</p>') ]]></script><title>Example page</title></head><body><p>Hello World</p></body></html>

by **JAB Creations** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:04 am

Learn real XHTML which is served as application/xhtml+xml which will not work with document.write. You're essentially proposing that HTML5 uses a hammer for a screw instead of a screwdriver.

by **PMB9** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:43 pm

I actually do serve XHTML pages as application/xhtml+xml. I don't know your 'screwdriver' solution. Are you able to explain it to me?

document.write() for XML

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