306605 - XMLSerializer.serializeToString skips CDATA sections

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255553

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Santiago Gala]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050809 Firefox/1.0.6

Trying to use OpenRico support for Ajax, I found that (as expected), non
well-formed content is not correctly parsed. When I tried to enclose the
non well-formed fragments in CDATA sections, expecting to be able to render
them, either directly or with some javascript magics, I found that they are
completely
skipped by the serializeToString method. In fact, an
xmlSerializer.serializeToString(parentNode.childNodes[i]) of the document shows
<![CDATA]]> instead of the content, or the content with the CDATA section.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a simple OpenRico demo which returns a CDATA fragment inside
2. look at the browser view of the document

Actual Results:  
serializeToString returns <!CDATA]]>

Expected Results:  
either keep the <![CDATA<bad text here>]]>, or, probably, insert the CDATA in
the serialized string. Not sure about correct behaviour here.

Comment 1

[Zook Valem]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255553 ***