16682 – Don't throw for ]]> with serializeAsCDATA

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Bug 16682 - Don't throw for ]]> with serializeAsCDATA

Summary: Don't throw for ]]> with serializeAsCDATA

Status:	NEW

Alias:	None

Product:	WebAppsWG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	DOM Parsing and Serialization (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC All

Importance:	P2 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Travis Leithead [MSFT]
QA Contact:	public-webapps-bugzilla

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Reported:	2012-04-10 13:16 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified:	2014-10-04 16:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Simon Pieters 2012-04-10 13:16:16 UTC

http://html5.org/specs/dom-parsing.html#concept-serialize-xml - instead of throwing for ]]> in text node with serializeAsCDATA, i think you should serialize a cdata section up to the first "]]>" not including the ">", then emit the rest (including the ">") as text

Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2012-04-10 13:21:29 UTC

Rationale: throwing when not strictly needed seems not nice. The previous spec text in HTML said to not throw for this case (but didn't define exactly what to do). The proposed behavior works nice with streaming and isn't overly complicated.