162744 - JavaScript strings do not contain elements and their contents

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Inigo Surguy]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020814
BuildID:    2002081409


Elements and their contents are not being correctly copied into JavaScript
strings, only text nodes that are outside elements. This is not the case in
normal HTML.

For example, 
  alert("<xsl:call-template name="test1"/>");
  
  <xsl:template name="test2">before<h2>headingtext</h2>after</xsl:template>

produces "beforeafter" and misses the <h2> and the headingtext.

I've confirmed the correct behaviour in Xalan and in MSXML.

It's possible to workaround this bug with copious use of CDATA sections.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See attachments

Comment 1

[Inigo Surguy]

Attachment: Lots of alerts demonstrating bug

Comment 2

[Inigo Surguy]

Attachment: The XML file

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

You should not create childelements of a <script>. You should create the
resulting *tree* that you want, not the serialization that you want.

What happens is that you create a child h2-element of the script, when the
script then executes it just grabs all the text-children and concatinate those
and execute, childelements are ignored. Agreeably this is debateable if it is
the right behavious, we shold maybe just refuse to execute the script entierly.
The resulting output is not valid html so no spec defines the behaviour.

Compliments for a very nice way of attaching the testcase though!! I wish more
people would do it this way.