[xml] XHTML Doc serialization and meta element
- From: Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>
- To: "xml gnome org" <xml gnome org>
- Subject: [xml] XHTML Doc serialization and meta element
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:50:37 -0400
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?
Rob
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