[webkit-dev] XHTML, XML and WebKit editing

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Rob Burns wrote:

>
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
>> Elements in an HTML document will generate the specific  
>> subclasses. However, the document object will not be an  
>> HTMLDocument (at least not currently - we may reconsider this in  
>> the future; there are complications with things like document.write).
>
> OK, now I'm seeing the behavior you expected. However, there's a  
> strange side-effect to this. The elements existing in the document  
> upon load are instantiated as DOMHTML* subclasses while the  
> elements I create with the DOMDocument createElement are now  
> DOMElement classes. So now I have meta elements of class DOMelement  
> and meta elements of class DOMHTMLMetaElement. I can work with  
> this, but its a bit peculiar.

If you want to make HTML elements from an XML document you have to  
use createElementNS with the xhtml namespace, not createElement.

Regards,
Maciej