False positive - DOMParser().parseFromString is treated as XSS sink
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**Description of the false positive**
CodeQL considers `DOMParser().parseFromString` as XSS sink but I think it is no longer XSS sink.
Though there was a bug in Safari some years ago, but the method is designed not to execute JavaScript as far as I read the discussions in https://github.com/GoogleChrome/web.dev/issues/6890 and the spec.
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dynamic-markup-insertion.html#dom-domparser-parsefromstring-dev
> Note that [script](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/scripting.html#the-script-element) elements are not evaluated during parsing, and the resulting document's [encoding](https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-document-encoding) will always be [UTF-8](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#utf-8).
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https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/57bceb67381bd630e4e7bac7a8ea170fd2f0b01e/extensions/markdown-language-features/preview-src/index.ts#L133-L134
https://github.com/github/codeql/blob/b6a7661c7e81ae296d92fe93c974910d9a479065/javascript/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE-079/DomBasedXss/tst.js#L177-L180
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