Open Bug 1624623 Opened 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago

XPathNSResolver throws SyntaxError instead of NamespaceError

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Core & HTML
Type:
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox-esr68 --- affected
firefox78 --- affected

People

(Reporter: shvaikalesh, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/12.1 Safari/605.1.15

Steps to reproduce:

WPT: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/22384

If https://heycam.github.io/webidl/#call-a-user-objects-operation returns abrupt completion, both Safari and Chrome throw NamespaceError. Firefox throws SyntaxError.

Severity: normal → minor
Component: Untriaged → DOM: Bindings (WebIDL)
Depends on: 1624206
OS: Unspecified → All
Product: Firefox → Core
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Version: 76 Branch → Trunk

The exception is from https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/7908ce29657cfd623993046bd8e38664e1c0b28e/dom/xslt/xpath/XPathEvaluator.cpp#92-101. And the spec is not defined which error should be throw in this case, https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#xpath.

Severity: minor → S3
status-firefox78: --- → affected
status-firefox-esr68: --- → affected
Component: DOM: Bindings (WebIDL) → DOM: Core & HTML
Priority: -- → P3

The bug has a release status flag that shows some version of Firefox is affected, thus it will be considered confirmed.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
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