Subj : Re: XML declaration broken going from Mozilla 1.8a6 to 1.8b
To   : Martin.Honnen
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sat Mar 12 2005 09:49 am

Martin Honnen wrote:

> Maybe Brendan and/or Igor know better whether new XML() in E4X should be 
> able to consume the complete XML markup from a document including the 
> XML declaration.


The specification's authors' intentions are not so clear, but as you 
note, the spec is: what SpiderMonkey does here is correct per ECMA-357.

Note that if you make an E4X wrapper around an XML DOM document via

   var x = new XML(document);

(a feature not yet implemented in SpiderMonkey and Gecko -- soon!), you 
shouldn't have any such problems.  So it seems ECMA-357 wants you to be 
able to parse XML into a DOM and then wrap that with E4X glue, which 
allows the XML declaration pseudo-PI; or parse a JS string containing 
XML, which does not.

I'll raise this issue with ECMA TG1.

/be

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