Re: mystery #3: rendering embedded HTML

> The new error says the contents of that <envelope> is invalid:
That error can't be generated by the contents of an element (unless
something has gone completely wrong. It can only be generated if 
the document itself isn't well formed.

> chars: value-of/doe is doing this, but also parses the result,
value-of never parses anything.

>  When d-o-e is enabled, value-of is (probably correctly)
> returning a node-set built from parsing the de-escaped element
> contents.

No, that's not what value-of does. It just returns the string value of
the argument. (Really it's easy enough to read the spec, ratherthan
trying to guess the specification from a few examples) D-o-e just tells
teh system that if it is linearising the result tree to a file that 
characters in that string should be output as < rather than &lt; (for
example) even if it produces a non-well formed result. d-o-e is only  a
flag to the serialser, it has no effect on the result tree at all.

> Does this suggest that "value-of" is an inappropriate way to extract
> markup-like strings from an element (because it parses what it reads)

no.

David

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