256021 - Need DOM extension to preserve entity references in XML/XUL documents

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I was looking at the prerequisites for writing a visual XUL editor, and entities
are looking to be an interesting problem, since we use them so pervasively for
localization. I want a DOM extension to preserve entities as a special form of
text node.

At first glance, this needs to be an editor-mode-only extension. Instead of
looking up entity references in the parser, the DOM would contain a special
implementation of nsIDOMCharacterData/nsGenericDOMDataNode that was essentially
read-only.

After the parser/content work is done, I'd need a CSS selector to match these
special entity nodes.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Seems like what you'd want here is support for DOM entity reference nodes, no
need for any extensions that I can see...

Comment 2

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

I don't see this being fixed.