303177 - "Copy XML" menu option in DOM Inspector copies nodes in Uppercase

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, defect)

Description

[Rory Haddon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

This is not a bug but a mistake in the DOM Inspector. When you choose the option
"Copy XML" the XML that is copied to the clipboard is not proper XML as all the
elements are in Uppercase.

I am using this function in order to save the file and test it on the W3C
validator to make sure my dynamic content is complient too. The W3C validator
will not recognise the xhtml tags in uppercase.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open DOM Inspector on any XHTML page
2. Right click HTML node and choose "Copy XML"
3. Paste to a text editor or similar and observe the Uppercase Nodes

Actual Results:  
Exactly as I describe above.

Expected Results:  
it should output the tags in Lowercase as per the original source and the W3C
standard for XHTML

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050719
Firefox/1.0.6

Are you absolutely certain the webpage was served as application/xhtml+xml?  If
it was served as text/html, then the behavior was correct.  HTML (which is what
XHTML is treated as under text/html) has uppercase tags to the DOM.

Comment 2

[Rory Haddon]

(In reply to comment #1)
> WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050719
> Firefox/1.0.6
> 
> Are you absolutely certain the webpage was served as application/xhtml+xml?  If
> it was served as text/html, then the behavior was correct.  HTML (which is what
> XHTML is treated as under text/html) has uppercase tags to the DOM.

You are correct, the page was served as text/html. I was not aware this was what
decided the DOM layout.

Thanks