13214 - significant whitespace stripped out of HTML elements

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229526

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

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

DESCRIPTION:  Significant whitespace is being stripped out of the edges of text
nodes within HTML elements in an XUL document.  This does not happen in an XML
document.  The basic problem is that in something like:

<block>This is <inline>an inline element</inline> in a block.</block>

The text nodes in the content model of the block element before and after the
inline element end up containing "This is" and "in a block." instead of
"This is " and " in a block.".  This means there's no space around links or
other inline elements.

I think this is an attempt to do the traditional "whitespace inside of tags in
insignificant", but it's also hitting whitespace outside of tags.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Load attached test case (the first one)

ACTUAL RESULTS: The bold word and the link have no space around them.

EXPECTED RESULTS: The bold word and the link should have the same spacing around
them as any other words.

DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY ON:
 * Linux, apprunner, 1999-09-03-11-M11
 * Linux, apprunner, 1999-09-05-08-M11
 * Linux, viewer, 1999-08-04, 12:15PDT debug build

WORKS CORRECTLY ON:
 * same builds, if the document is an XML document rather than an XUL document.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: XUL document demonstrating bug

Comment 2

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

Attachment: XML document showing bug does not exist in XML (as opposed to XUL)

Comment 3

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

(My debug build was 1999-09-04, not 1999-08-04!)

Comment 4

[Peter Trudelle]

Dave, should this belong to you?

Comment 5

[David Hyatt]

waterson's.

Comment 6

[Chris Waterson]

I suck.

Comment 7

[Paul MacQuiddy]

spam: changing qa contact from ckritzer -> paulmac for xul bugs

Comment 8

[leger]

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XUL to XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL.  XUL 
component will be deleted.

Comment 9

[Paul MacQuiddy]

*IGNORE* - massive spam changing open XPToolkit bug's QA contact to
[e-mail]

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

-> parser
(related: bug 48376)

Comment 11

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

This is a bug (or perhaps a feature) in the XUL content sink, not the Parser.

Comment 12

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

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229526 ***

Comment 13

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.