43499 - XML document, sent as 'Content-type: text/plain' is interpreted as HTML

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect, P3)

Description

[John Morrison]

Overview Description:
  An XML document, sent as 'Content-type: text/plain' is being 
  interpreted as HTML; elements with names that match those of 
  valid HTML elements are interpreted as such

Steps to Reproduce:
1) load http://jrgm/adhoc/xml-as-text-plain/somexml.txt, which is 
   sent as 'Content-type: text/plain' and has these contents:

--snip--------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0"?> 

    <button value="a button"/>

    <someUnknownElement>
       blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
    </someUnknownElement>

    <b>
       blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
    </b>
--snip--------------------------------------------------------------------


Actual Results  : the <button> and <b> elements are displayed as they would
                  be in an HTML document.

Expected Results: (My opinion :-]) -- this should be displayed as a 
                  text/plain document, as there is not enough reason to 
                  "cast" this content into HTML. 

Build Date & Platform Bug Found:
  2000062108 win95/mac/linux builds

Additional Information:

I realize that this is a gray area, but I think that in this case, "cast"ing
to HTML is incorrect. Other opinions may vary :-]

Comment 1

[rickg]

Odd - I'd expect the file to be interpreted as plaintext. I'll take a look.

Comment 2

[karnaze (gone)]

Harish, I'm reassigning rickg parser bugs to you.

Comment 3

[harishd]

Attachment: Proposed patch...

Comment 4

[harishd]

Nominating for beta3.

Comment 5

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Marking nsbeta3+

Comment 6

[harishd]

This is FIXED now. XML document with mime-type text/plain will be rendered as 
plain text.

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

verified fixed, mac/linux/win32 for the branch 0929 builds