[xml] Re: 'Re: "Control over encoding declaration (prolog and meta)'

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> > You want to put the serialised data in a DOMString? Having a document as 
> > it would be on the permanent storage, verbatim, in a DOMString? Why in 
> > the name of God would you ever want to do this? DOM is there to access 
> > parsed data, not serialised data, no?
>
>
> In the name of God, I want to do this because of the lovely DOM 3 LS 
> specification.
>
> DOMString:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Core-20031107/core.html#ID-C74D1578
>
> DOM 3 LS - LSSerializer.writeToString
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-LS-20031107/load-save.html#LS-LSSerializer-writeToString

Okay, five negative points for me.

According to that spec, someone thought that serialising in a DOMString 
is a good idea. My opinion hasn't changed, I still think that noone 
should ever need that, but I won't argue about specs.

So you want to implement the writeToString method.

But why would you specify some ISO-X encoding in the XML declaration of 
the serialised data? The encoding in the XML declaration of the 
serialised XML refers to precisely that serialised XML.

As I read that spec, writeToString method can serialise only in UTF-16. 
If it outputs a XML declaration and specifies an encoding, then it must 
specify UTF-16 and nothing else.

Ciao,
Igor