367602 - html parser just *eats* PHP tags <? foo ?>, so they don't appear in DOM or innerHTML

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Gavi Narra]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

In javascript code, when I try to get innerHTML of HTML element that contains some text patterns like "<?", the section is ignored. 

Sample Code:
http://www.objectgraph.com/download/bug.html

My Blog Entry (Test result both IE and Mozilla):
http://blog.objectgraph.com/2007/01/bug-in-mozilla.html#links

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a pre html tag that contains text sequence like <?
2.Get id of the pre tag
3.Retrive innerHTML from the HTML element 

Actual Results:  
The section between <? and ?> in innerHTML is ignored

Expected Results:  
The entire innerHTML including text between <? and ?> should be returned in innerHTML

Comment 1

[crf]

Attachment: like what was written in the reporter's web page

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Using DOM Inspector, you can see that it's the HTML parser that's not doing what you want (rather than the serialization for innerHTML).

data:text/html,foo<?bar?>baz

See also bug 59985.  But I don't think this is a dup; bug 59985 might only affect Composer.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Confirmed (Mac trunk), but I'm not convinced this should be fixed.

Comment 4

[Gavi Narra]

I created a simple colorizer application that colorizes code in webpages by sending it to the server. So it does read the dom tree to find all pre tags. I noticed that it doesnt work with php code.

http://www.pygments.com

Anyway, just trying to make a case to fix this issue:-). Looks like safari also has this bug!!

Comment 5

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

No longer eaten. Treated as a bogus comment per HTML5. (The reporter's "expected results" is INVALID per spec.)