Replace document.write with something that makes ReSpec work with XHTML files

[komputist]

As of ReSpec 3.1.46, the script contains several document.write statements. This makes the script fail with the message "INVALID_STATE_ERR: DOM Exception 11: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable" if one tries to apply the script to an XHTML document (a document consumed as application/xhtml+xml).

[darobin]

Can you point at specific instances of this in the code?

Note that supporting XHTML is not particularly a goal, the authoring format is meant to be HTML5. (But if there's a simple change that can make it work, then it can be applied for sure.)

[komputist]

There are 5 instances of document.write in http://darobin.github.com/respec/builds/respec-w3c-common.js

The general advice is to use the innerHTML property instead.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/#script-and-style

[komputist]

Hm, I should probably have pointed to js/w3c/legacy.js — that’s where all the document.write statemens I’ve found are – https://github.com/darobin/respec/blob/develop/js/w3c/legacy.js

[darobin]

Outside discussion has shown this not to be the issue.