On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > I rather question whether there are actual use cases for this that > justify the complexity in an area of code (security checks) where > complexity and the attendant potential for bugs is to be avoided at all > costs.
The only special case I can think of is getting an XML or HTML file parsed into a DOM, which is made redundant with the document.innerHTML idea in HTML5. So assuming we have the latter, I'm ok with not having the former. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'