Closed Bug 170776 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

text nodes should not be created where they are illegal per the DTD

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: stummala, Assigned: harishd)

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted, Whiteboard: WONTFIX?)

It is illegal to create a textnode in the <head> block and between the <TD> & <TR> according to the dtd. So all the whitespaces, newlines should be ignored by the parser. #document HTML HEAD TITLE #text #text -- not allowed SCRIPT #text #text BODY ... ... When trying to access the script node, i actually got the text node. we should not have a #text node as child of head element. ref: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/struct/global.html#h-7.4.1
Keywords: nsbeta1
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Priority: -- → P2
sivakiran: Please don't set priority for bugs that you don't own.
Priority: P2 → --
This may not in fact be a bug (due to SGML->DOM conversion being broken-as-designed). See bug 26179.
<html> <body> This is illegal text </body> </html> Should we drop the text there too? Or just in head and tables and such?
I think this should be fixed, where we can be sure that we do not break any web sites.
I think that would be a lot of work and would break lots of websites we failed to notice... but that's just my opinion. If someone is willing to do the work, go for it by all means.
Keywords: helpwanted
adt: nsbeta1-
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1-
Is this a request just for HTML? If so, I think we should WONTFIX it, since we are basically a tag soup parser, not an HTML parser. Certainly, this is no more important than implementing support for SHORTTAG features, IMHO.
Whiteboard: WONTFIX?
Impedance mismatch. In SGML, the DTD limits where "text" (#PCDATA) can appear. However, SGML allows a limited subset of text, whitespace, to appear in many different places (between tags, etc.). In the DOM, both #PCDATA and whitespace are represented by text nodes, hence the problem reported here. More precisely, the initial statement "It is illegal to create a textnode in the <head> block and between the <TD> & <TR> according to the dtd." is incorrect; it is illegal to have non-whitespace text in those places, but a text*node* is part of the DOM and not constrained by DTD. I agree that this should be WONTFIX.
ok, one less bug to worry squash.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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