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Creation of DOM containing invalid xml characters.





------- Additional Comments From keshlam@us.ibm.com  2002-05-08 14:17 -------
Acceptable behavior per the DOM spec. Checking every character at editing time 
would impose computational overhead, and would usually be unnecessary since few 
applications will generate invalid characters in the first place; hence the DOM 
does not require imposing such a test. 

(The DOM REC _does_ explicitly ask that element and attribute names be checked 
to make sure they're legal. One can quibble about whether that was a good 
decision or not, but it's in the REC. Checking character content isn't.)

The serializer, which must examine every character for possible escaping, really 
is the best place for an XML library to impose this test. Or check before 
inserting the characters into the DOM in the first place.

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