159857 - xbl doesn't create <html:td> correctly

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

xbl seems to have a problem creating td under certain circumstances:

 <binding id="ruby">
 <content>
   <html:table border="1">
     <html:tbody>	  
       <html:tr>	  		
         <html:td>a</html:td><children includes="rtc"/>
       </html:tr>	  					
     </html:tbody>	  			
   </html:table>
   </children>
  </content>
 </binding>

  <binding id="rtc">
    <content>
      <children/>
    </content>
  </binding>  
  
  <binding id="rt">
    <content>
      <html:td><children/></html:td>
    </content>
  </binding>   

all the html:td's created by the rt binding don't behave like td's (no border
for example).

example at: http://www.nexgenmedia.net/ruby/bug/file.html

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

forgot the html:

<ruby>
  <rtc>
    <rt>Month</rt>
    <rt>Day</rt>
  </rtc>
</ruby>

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Reconfirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002072203 by observing lack of borders on right
two table cells in testcase. Setting All/All.

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

happens in xul:grid as well

Comment 4

[David Hyatt]

You have a stray </children>... in the ruby binding...

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

The reason is that without the stray </children>, the xbl binding won't apply
(jag said it was on purpose so).

What seems to happen is that the html:tr has (in dom inspector) a rtc childnode,
which then has a rt chilenode which then has the html:td anonymous content,
which doesn't get added to the html:table dom.

I tried using javascript to move the html:td nodes but since they are anonymous
content, I can't get to them from the html:table.

Comment 6

[David Hyatt]

That should be <children/> though, not </children>. 

Anyway, this is probably not working because I missed patching something in the thousands of lines of special-case table frame construction code. Sigh.

Comment 7

[Anne (:annevk)]

This bug needs a new testcase. It should be attached to the bug.

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

XBL is now disabled in Firefox (Bug 1583314) and is in the process of being removed from Gecko (Bug 1566221), so closing bugs requesting changes to its implementation as wontfix.