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The DOM Level 3 Core tests: documentnormalizedocument06 documentnormalizedocument07 both require that the message property of a DOMError raised through the normalisation procedure must not be an empty string. However all Core has to say on the property is that it is "an implementation specific string", so empty string is probably allowable (if unhelpful).