Bug in xxforms:serialize(..., HTML)

> Hi Florian,
>
> wow, weird - last time I tried these methods, they would output empty tags as,
> e.g., <a name="x"/>, and most browser would miss the closing tag. But now this
> really seems to work. Thanks a lot for the hint!
> Is there any difference between xhtml and xml? I chose the former now, since
> the page is written in the xhtml namespace, but on my test page I could not
> see any difference.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
> Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2011, um 10:57:12 schrieb Florian Schmitt:
>> Ralf,
>>
>> it works with the xml or xhtml serialization method - not sure why,
>> but it does :)
>>
>> fs
>
>
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> Hi Florian,
>
> wow, weird - last time I tried these methods, they would output empty tags
> as, e.g., <a name="x"/>, and most browser would miss the closing tag. But
> now this really seems to work. Thanks a lot for the hint!
> Is there any difference between xhtml and xml? I chose the former now,
> since the page is written in the xhtml namespace, but on my test page I
> could not see any difference.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
> Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2011, um 10:57:12 schrieb Florian Schmitt:
> > Ralf,
> >
> > it works with the xml or xhtml serialization method - not sure why,
> > but it does :)
> >
> > fs

> Hi again,
>
> I had to switch the output method from xhtml to xml, without really knowing
> why - I am using this for the output of five different XSLT
> transformations, and for one of them, "xhtml" would again print
> double-br-tags.
>
> Then I got fed up with it and tried to understand what's actually
> happening. I changed the xforms:output and removed the serialize call
> there, instead using replace="text" in the submission. This worked fine,
> except for - you guess it - the handling of closing tags. All was fine
> when the content was initially loaded and sent with the initial HTML, but
> when it was loaded dynamically, closing tags would be omitted in cases
> where this is not allowed, e.g. for <a>-Tags.  While digging through the
> Orbeon source code I was confronted with quite a mess of different
> serializers and whatnot, but I think I found the right place to fix the
> problem. With attached patch, everything seems to work fine here.
> I also understood why initially, I had these problems only when a link was
> present in the source code: The bug was not in xxforms:serialize, but in
> XFormsControl.getEscapedHTMLValue, which only works if it finds a "href"
> (or "src") attribute. But that one has been fixed in the mean time.
>
> This would all be so much easier if XML would be used everywhere, instead
> of innerHTML and whatnot...
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
> On Sunday 24 July 2011 11:14:31 Ralf Jung wrote:
> > Hi Florian,
> >
> > wow, weird - last time I tried these methods, they would output empty
> > tags as, e.g., <a name="x"/>, and most browser would miss the closing
> > tag. But now this really seems to work. Thanks a lot for the hint!
> > Is there any difference between xhtml and xml? I chose the former now,
> > since the page is written in the xhtml namespace, but on my test page I
> > could not see any difference.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> > Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2011, um 10:57:12 schrieb Florian Schmitt:
> > > Ralf,
> > >
> > > it works with the xml or xhtml serialization method - not sure why,
> > > but it does :)
> > >
> > > fs

> Hi list,
>
> any feedback or comments for this problem/patch?
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf
>
> On Sunday 21 August 2011 14:36:02 Ralf Jung wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I had to switch the output method from xhtml to xml, without really knowing
>> why - I am using this for the output of five different XSLT
>> transformations, and for one of them, "xhtml" would again print
>> double-br-tags.
>>
>> Then I got fed up with it and tried to understand what's actually
>> happening. I changed the xforms:output and removed the serialize call
>> there, instead using replace="text" in the submission. This worked fine,
>> except for - you guess it - the handling of closing tags. All was fine
>> when the content was initially loaded and sent with the initial HTML, but
>> when it was loaded dynamically, closing tags would be omitted in cases
>> where this is not allowed, e.g. for <a>-Tags.  While digging through the
>> Orbeon source code I was confronted with quite a mess of different
>> serializers and whatnot, but I think I found the right place to fix the
>> problem. With attached patch, everything seems to work fine here.
>> I also understood why initially, I had these problems only when a link was
>> present in the source code: The bug was not in xxforms:serialize, but in
>> XFormsControl.getEscapedHTMLValue, which only works if it finds a "href"
>> (or "src") attribute. But that one has been fixed in the mean time.
>>
>> This would all be so much easier if XML would be used everywhere, instead
>> of innerHTML and whatnot...
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ralf
>>
>> On Sunday 24 July 2011 11:14:31 Ralf Jung wrote:
>> > Hi Florian,
>> >
>> > wow, weird - last time I tried these methods, they would output empty
>> > tags as, e.g., <a name="x"/>, and most browser would miss the closing
>> > tag. But now this really seems to work. Thanks a lot for the hint!
>> > Is there any difference between xhtml and xml? I chose the former now,
>> > since the page is written in the xhtml namespace, but on my test page I
>> > could not see any difference.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Ralf
>> >
>> > Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2011, um 10:57:12 schrieb Florian Schmitt:
>> > > Ralf,
>> > >
>> > > it works with the xml or xhtml serialization method - not sure why,
>> > > but it does :)
>> > >
>> > > fs
>
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> Ralf,
>
> Sorry we haven't looked at it yet. Do you have a workaround?
>
> -Erik
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Ralf Jung <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > any feedback or comments for this problem/patch?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> > On Sunday 21 August 2011 14:36:02 Ralf Jung wrote:
> >> Hi again,
> >>
> >> I had to switch the output method from xhtml to xml, without really
> >> knowing why - I am using this for the output of five different XSLT
> >> transformations, and for one of them, "xhtml" would again print
> >> double-br-tags.
> >>
> >> Then I got fed up with it and tried to understand what's actually
> >> happening. I changed the xforms:output and removed the serialize call
> >> there, instead using replace="text" in the submission. This worked fine,
> >> except for - you guess it - the handling of closing tags. All was fine
> >> when the content was initially loaded and sent with the initial HTML,
> >> but when it was loaded dynamically, closing tags would be omitted in
> >> cases where this is not allowed, e.g. for <a>-Tags.  While digging
> >> through the Orbeon source code I was confronted with quite a mess of
> >> different serializers and whatnot, but I think I found the right place
> >> to fix the problem. With attached patch, everything seems to work fine
> >> here. I also understood why initially, I had these problems only when a
> >> link was present in the source code: The bug was not in
> >> xxforms:serialize, but in XFormsControl.getEscapedHTMLValue, which only
> >> works if it finds a "href" (or "src") attribute. But that one has been
> >> fixed in the mean time.
> >>
> >> This would all be so much easier if XML would be used everywhere,
> >> instead of innerHTML and whatnot...
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Ralf
> >>
> >> On Sunday 24 July 2011 11:14:31 Ralf Jung wrote:
> >> > Hi Florian,
> >> >
> >> > wow, weird - last time I tried these methods, they would output empty
> >> > tags as, e.g., <a name="x"/>, and most browser would miss the closing
> >> > tag. But now this really seems to work. Thanks a lot for the hint!
> >> > Is there any difference between xhtml and xml? I chose the former now,
> >> > since the page is written in the xhtml namespace, but on my test page
> >> > I could not see any difference.
> >> >
> >> > Kind regards,
> >> > Ralf
> >> >
> >> > Am Sonntag 24 Juli 2011, um 10:57:12 schrieb Florian Schmitt:
> >> > > Ralf,
> >> > >
> >> > > it works with the xml or xhtml serialization method - not sure why,
> >> > > but it does :)
> >> > >
> >> > > fs
> >
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