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Explain fromLiteral method. (#376)
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This mechanism complements CSP's `'unsafe-inline'`, allowing the authors to enable strong security
controls in their application even if it occasionally uses `javascript:` URLs for legitimate purposes.

### Source Literals

XSS is an unintended modification of a site's source code. Wrapping literals
from the original JavaScript resource - which by definition aren't XSS - can be
cumbersome. Trusted Types provides a way to easily wrap source literals in
Trusted Types by using the tagged template syntax and the `fromLiteral` methods,
in a way that cannot be spoofed at runtime:

``` javascript
const value = TrustedHTML.fromLiteral`<b>Hello there.</b>`;
```

Note that template literals are passed as arrays of strings to the tag functions.
`fromLiteral` checks that a passed-in value is actually a template literal
and not dynamically constructed.

``` javascript
TrustedHTML.fromLiteral(["<b>Hello there.</b>"]); // Throws.
```

### DOM Sinks

* **HTML Contexts**: Given something like `typedef (DOMString or TrustedHTML) HTMLString`, we'd
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