445166 - innerHTML setter in XHTML document rejects HTML entities such as  

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Attachment: testcase

(Re-reporting bug 444576, which got a little messy.)

The innerHTML in an XHTML document setter accepts "pure XML" entities such as & but rejects HTML-specific entities such as &nsbp;.  I think it should accept both.  (It would be even better if it went beyond that and took the DTD into consideration; see bug 325581 for an example with MathML entities.)

Quick survey of browser behaviors on Tiger:

* Firefox trunk: NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER

* Firefox 2: NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR

* Safari: NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR (clearly a lie, since it allows &)

* Opera: Works.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What does HTML5 say here?

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

That Firefox is correct. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/dom.html#innerhtml basically says to create a new XML parser. The only bits you feed to it are the element start tag including namespace prefixes and the default namespace in scope. No entity declarations and such.