166467 - document.createProcessingInstruction() busted in XUL

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

In Mozilla 1.1beta, it appears document.createProcessingInstruction() is indeed 
broken in XUL, as commented on in bug 69840.  I'll be happy to supply a 
testcase as needed.

I have not yet had a chance to test it in a later build than 1.1b.  I 
encountered it while attempting to create something similar to DOM Inspector, 
for bug 112775.  

Workaround is to create an XHTML document:

var html_doctype = document.implementation.createDocumentType("html", "-
//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN", "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd")
var html_doc = document.implementation.createDocument
("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "html", html_doctype)
var pi = html_doc.createProcessingInstruction()

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The code for CreateProcessingInstruction looks fine at first glance... how about
that testcase?

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

I am a dunce.  I meant createDocumentFragment(), not createProcessingInstruction
().  The bug in question is bug 5222.