111536 - XHTML as XML: document.body, forms, embeds, images, applets, links, anchors lose properties

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 111514

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

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

The following objects lose all properties when viewed from an XHTML document as
text/xml:

document.body
document.images
document.applets
document.links
document.forms
document.anchors
document.embeds

Four-part testcase coming up.

Comment 1

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: Testcase, part 1 of 4

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: Testcase, part 2 of 4

Same as Part 1, different mime-type.

Comment 3

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: Testcase, part 3 of 4

Comment 4

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: Testcase, part 4 of 4

Click on this file to see the testcase.

Comment 5

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

This bug blocks 111514 and 109373 because they are specific cases of the same
problem.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

I'd like these semantic javascript collections to be available in XML documents 
because I write bookmarklets (javascript programs that can be stored as 
bookmarks and then run on multiple web sites).  It would suck if the 
bookmarklets using document.links and document.images didn't work on XML pages.

Comment 7

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: application/xhtml+xml testcase, part 1 of 2

As requested, I'm providing a testcase using application/xhtml+xml.

Comment 8

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Attachment: application/xhtml+xml testcase, part 2 of 2

Fixed a slight XHTML invalid element in the first part (I always forget the
alt="" attribute), but that shouldn't affect the testcase.

Click on this file to see an application/xhtml+xml testcase.

Comment 9

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

The problem here, as in bug 111514, is that the document isn't an HTMLDocument,
so the appropriate methods aren't there. The DOM-2-HTML WD says that it applies
to xhtml, and when the correct mimetype is given, then we should probably do this.

Comment 10

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111514 ***

Comment 11

[Sivakiran Tummala]

verified as dup