Closed Bug 675061 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

HTML entities in Javascript with application/xhtml+xml

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Platform:
All
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 445166

People

(Reporter: martin, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50

Steps to reproduce:

I can't use HTML entities in Javascript when using the application/xhtml+xml Content-Type.

According to the XHTML specs:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801/#h-A2
"The XHTML entity sets are the same as for HTML 4, but have been modified to be valid XML 1.0 entity declarations. Note the entity for the Euro currency sign (€ or  € or €) is defined as part of the special characters."

As I understand this, HTML should work. They *do* actually work in the document, but not in Javascript.

I created a small test page:
http://arp242.net/entity-test/


Actual results:

Javascript will give an error:

[00:24:50.735] uncaught exception: [Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified"  code: "12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR)"  location: "http://arp242.net/entity-test/javascript.js Line: 11"]


Expected results:

As I understand it, it should work as with text/html
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: General → DOM: Core & HTML
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → general
Version: 5 Branch → Trunk
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