CDATA section can be imported into HTML document

[meiqinyan]

What is the issue with the DOM Standard?

Document.importNode() can be called with a CDATA section node as the first argument, in effect allowing for a CDATA section to belong to a HTML document. Given that .createCDATASection() for HTML throws an exception, the intent appears to be that this is not supposed to be possible.

While this situation is somewhat bizarre, as far as I can tell there are not any inconsistencies that actually result from this. Maybe changing .createCDATASection() to behave the same in HTML as XML would be less surprising?

[annevk]

I guess I'm not entirely opposed to doing something here, but given this is a somewhat obsolete feature I'm not sure there's much interest in fixing it.