793299 - firefox cannot parse < and > in xml

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Adarsh]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

am parsing xml containing < and > in a jsp


Actual results:

am getting parse error
But it used work in earlier version of firefox , chrome and explorer


Expected results:

< and > should ve displayed in UI

Comment 1

[Adarsh]

Actually i just discovered that it can parse &gt; i.e i can get '>" on the UI but not &lt;('<')

SO firefox v15 cannot parse &lt; in xml

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please provide a testcase, either attached or as URL

Comment 3

[Loic]

Dupe of bug 788444?

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Hard to tell given complete lack of steps to reproduce.

Parsing &lt; in XML in general works just fine, of course (try data:text/xml,<root>&lt;</root>), which is where steps describing _exactly_ what is being done come in.

Comment 5

[Loic]

Adarsh, provide a testcase, please.

Comment 6

[Praveen]

Attachment: file which help you to reproduce the issue

The attached html page will help to reproduce the issue mentioned in this bug.

Comment 7

[Loic]

(In reply to Praveen from comment #6)
> Created attachment 724265 [details]
> file which help you to reproduce the issue
> 
> The attached html page will help to reproduce the issue mentioned in this
> bug.

Where is the issue?
<subentry value="g1UFT$94AABaaA:Item:001117-Item&gt;:::Item"></subentry>
is parsed as
<subentry value="g1UFT$94AABaaA:Item:001117-Item>:::Item"></subentry>
in the dialog box.

Comment 8

[Praveen]

Thats the actual issue. I want to send the data to xml parser which in turns gives parsing error.

This works perfectly in IE9.

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Our current behavior is the behavior the spec calls for.

Your problem is that you're sending the output of an _HTML_ serializer to an _XML_ parser.  The two languages have different escaping and parsing rules.

If you want to serialize as XML, use an XML serializer.  See http://domparsing.spec.whatwg.org/#the-xmlserializer-interface for example.