132205 - File->Save Page As Generates Invalid XHTML

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 120556

(Core :: DOM: Serializers, defect)

Description

[Aled Davies]

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BuildID:    2002031104

File->Save As generates invalid HTML when saving XHTML file.

When using File->Save As to save the HTML page all tags which are of the form:

<tag />

Are rendered incorrectly as:

<tag>

Thus making the file invalid XHTML.

Bizarrely if you view the page source and save the page from this menu then the
page will save correctly.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load a valid XHTML page (try http://www.entropytango.org)
2. File->Save Page As to save page to file.
3. Open saved file in text editor.

Actual Results:  Examine the saved file. You will notice that all tag which were
<tag />
are now <tag> and the page will no longer validate.

Compare the file with what you see when you do View->Page Source.

Expected Results:  Saved the file correctly with tags of form <tag /> staying of
form <tag />. It should be identical to what happens when you do View->Page
Source and save the file from there.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

To DOM-to-Text conversion.  This is almost certainly a duplicate....

Try saving "HTML Only", not "Web page complete", by the way.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

reassign for real

Comment 3

[Andrew Lin]

Good call, Boris.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120556 ***

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

yep.  That's the one... :)