Anne van Kesteren schrieb:
For XML parsing, DOM3 Load (or another dedicated API) could provide
much more control. Obviously, we cannot remove responseXML from
XMLHttpRequest, but not adding more known formats sounds like a good
idea to me.
Is such control really needed? For most people having responseXML seems
fine. Given how widely used HTML is it makes sense to make responseXML
also work for text/html resources given that browsers treat text/html as
prescribed by HTML5.
Well, does any of the existing implementations support parsing HTML and
returning an XML DOM? And why would you want to do that in the first place?
If we start adding new things to the spec, then please let's try not to
add hacks, but to define good new APIs. Setting the headers comes to
mind, or the ability to retrieve binary content...
Best regards, Julian
