On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:50:37AM -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
> I ran into a situation on a double free on a node and tracked down the
> issue to serializing an XHTML document.
> xmlDocContentDumpOutput calls htmlSetMetaEncoding for XHTML documents
> which ends up altering the internal document by freeing the meta element
> and adding its own. Same thing happens with xmlNodeDumpOutput and
> htmlSaveFileFormat as well. Though htmlDocDump and htmlSaveFile don't
> mess with the meta element.
>
> Problem with this is if a meta element already exists, I don't see why
> it should be altering the origional doc at all (which is something I do
> not want to happen). Also, it ends up forcing the content to be
> text/html when the origional document had set it to
> application/xhtml+xml. Now according to the specs
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/), when using this media type,
> the http-equiv should not be included (W3C definition of should not) ,
> so origional document is wrong in that respect, but this then means the
> meta tag should not automatically be added by the library either when
> the document is to be served as that media type.
>
> It basically comes down to it would be one thing if the serialized
> version of the tree were altered - would have to think about wether it
> really was an issue or not - but I don't think an internal document
> should be altered during a serialization.
>
> Thoughts?
Just trying to follow the best practices outlined by XHTML1 W3C spec
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_9
Modifying the document is not ideal I agree, but it's simpler than trying to
get all user application fixed !
"Problem with this is if a meta element already exists"
Which meta ? there is a zillion of those possible. Things are always clearer
with a complete example.
Daniel
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