6033 - accessing ownerDocument on attribute node stops script running

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Accessing the ownerDocument attribute of secondA (which is an attribute node)
stops the script running, and the rest of it fails (the last few test lines
that result after pressing "Run Passive Tests") are not printed).  The line in
question is:

shouldNotBe("secondA.ownerDocument.documentElement",
secondA.ownerDocument.documentElement, "null", null);

It works if I change secondA to secondE (which is an element node), but
continues not working if I remove ".documentElement".

Comment 1

[vidur (gone)]

I have a fix in my tree waiting to be checked in for Attribute. It's
ownerDocument is identical to that of its owning Element.

Currently, I don't really have ownerDocument implemented correctly for Elements
either. It returns the correct value when the node is attached to a document,
but null when it's free standing (i.e. when it's first created). The change to
get it to work correctly is something I want to defer till a bit later in the
cycle.

Comment 2

[vidur (gone)]

Fix checked in on 5/6/1999. An attribute now returns its Element's
ownerDocument.

Comment 3

[gem]

verified