I haven't looked in detail, but it seems like a valid bug. Can you create and ticket on the tracker ? http://dev.jquery.com/newticket
Thanks -- Ariel Flesler http://flesler.blogspot.com On Aug 26, 11:23 am, Antonio Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The .clean() method tries to replace empty elements defined as <elem /> with > <elem></elem>. Here's the code from .clean(): > > // Convert html string into DOM nodes > if ( typeof elem == "string" ) { > // Fix "XHTML"-style tags in all browsers > elem = elem.replace(/(<(\w+)[^>]*?)\/>/g, function(all, front, tag){ > return > tag.match(/^(abbr|br|col|img|input|link|meta|param|hr|area|embed)$/i) ? > all : > front + "></" + tag + ">"; > }); > > If the element is namespaced like this: > <data:person name="john doe" id="123" /> > the manufactured closing tag is incorrect: > <data:person name="john doe" id="123" ></data> > > Changing the regular expression's (\w+) to ([A-Za-z0-9_:]+) fixes the > problem. > > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/jQuery-1.2.X%27s-.clean%28%29-mangles-namespace... > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
