A hint to use WYMeditor with application/xhtml+xml

[Max_B]

Hi there,
If you are, like me, serving xhtml as application/xhtml+xml to capable browsers, as it should to avoid the famous syndrome of poor/false xhtml, you may have run in trouble, as I did at my first attempt some weeks ago. Without specific adjustment the creation of We fails on Error: NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: DOM Exception 7.

This time, I dig in more seriously, looked at the test page from SVN, and found that it runs because We creation is enclosed in a try-catch block, which is a small cheat. In fact it fails as it is but only on a marginal point.
So I looked at the error and found the culprit. It's a small bit of code, on line 18 in default skin.js

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.append("<span>&nbsp;&gt;</span>")

The error is raised from jquery element creation and id due to the >, even if it's specified as >. It should be escaped or something like this.
Strange enough I verified that using

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.append("<span> ></span>") // the white space is utf-8 non-breaking space

DOES work, probably because jquery escapes automatically somewhere, I did not check further.

I choose to simply comment the faulty line because it adds only a cosmetic character and I don't need it for my layout (from the modified layout example).

With this line commented out or modified, one can create WYMeditor without try-catch enclosing block, in page served as application/xhtml+xml.

[jfh]

Interesting, I'll check that. Thanks.

[jfh]

Ticket created:
http://trac.wymeditor.org/trac/ticket/144

[bally]

jquery itself did not work (until recently) for application/xhtml+xml. I believe that that's been fixed with 1.3.x release.

[Max_B]

Could you elaborate?
I'm using 1.2.6 on most of my sites served as application/xhtml+xml, with no problem.
Its use of innerHTML is questionable as non standard. But it works.
There are some problem with ajax loaded content, mostly on webkit, which can be deal with by using proper name space on outer block of loaded content.