126288 - XHTML elements added through DOM are ignored.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 111514

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

Description

[Kelson]

Using document.createElement(), document.createTextNode(), and appendChild() to
add elements to an HTML document works fine, but when added to an XHTML document
served as text/xml or application/xhtml+xml, the text is simply appended to the
previous element and the new elements are ignored.  Using the DOM inspector,
however, shows the new elements in the correct places.  I'll attach a test case
simplified from a browser detection page which should illustrate the problem.

I've seen this for a while several months, but originally thought that I was
just using the functions incorrectly (I changed the application to serve
text/html by default and pushed it to the back burner), but now that I've gone
back and looked at it with the DOM inspector I'm no longer certain.  It still
occurs in build 2002021708 on Win2k and 0.9.8 on Linux.

Comment 1

[Kelson]

Attachment: Test case as application/xhtml+xml

Comment 2

[Kelson]

Attachment: Test case as text/html

Only difference from previous attachment (aside from content type) is <![CDATA[
... ]]> replaced with <!-- --> in <script>...</script> block.

Comment 3

[Sivakiran Tummala]

confirming bug

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

In the |application/xhtml+xml| case |document| is an XML document, so
createElement('a') will simply create an XML element named 'a'. This is all due
to bug 111514.

Comment 5

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

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