Subj : Re: Different handling of XML literals in Spidermonkey and Rhino
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sun Mar 27 2005 11:43 am

Brendan Eich wrote:
> Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
>> However, I am not sure how the default for 
>> XML.ignoreComments/ignoreProcessingInstructions come into play here 
>> and what is really supposed to happen. 
> 
> 
> XML.ignore{Comments,ProcessingInstructions} affect only 10.3.2 "ToXML 
> Applied to a W3C XML Information Item", but that section's algorithm is 
> invoked by 10.3.1 "ToXML Applied to the String Type", step 4.  So it 
> looks like SpiderMonkey is failing to respect these flags here.  I'll 
> fix ASAP.


So the bug bites only top-level PIs and comments:

js> x = <?pi?>
<?pi ?>
js> y = <t>hi <?pi?> there</t>
hithere
js> y.toXMLString()
<t>
   hi
   there
</t>
js> z = <!-- boo -->
<!-- boo -->
js> w = <t>hi <!-- moo --> there</t>
hithere
js> w.toXMLString()
<t>
   hi
   there
</t>

So we'll want tests for both cases in the suite -- Bob is on the case. 
I'll fix straight away.

/be

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