142529 - JavaScript Form Submit doesn't work in an XML/XSL page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130161

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Nandu]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2002041711

When I try to do a form submit through JavaScript in HTML it works fine. But, 
when I try to do the same in an XML/XSL doc, it doesn't submit the form and I 
keep getting an error that says "document.FormName has no properties".

Please see the attached files for details.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try doing a JavaScript Form submit through XML/XSL.


Actual Results:  Works in HTML and not in XML/XSL.

Comment 1

[Nandu]

Attachment: JavaScript form submit page in HTML. This one works.

Comment 2

[Nandu]

Attachment: XSL that generates the output.

Comment 3

[Nandu]

Attachment: This is the XML that fails the form submit.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is because we generate XHTML with the transform and document.formName is
invalid in XHTML documents in Mozilla.  If you use document.getElementById or
other DOM Core methods (not DOM HTML methods, or DOM0 methods as you are
attempting to do) you should be fine.  :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130161 ***

Comment 5

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

In Mozilla the transfomed document is really XHTML. We have a bug that the HTML
DOM properties don't work in XHTML. That is bug 111514.

What this is duped against is only going to fix things for XSLT transformations,
I believe. But that seems to be what you are interested in, so it should be ok
for you.