217367 - trees do not work with qualified RDF in datasources

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Brant Gurganus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030821
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030821

Trees do not work with qualified RDF.  That is, rdf:about="something" does not
work, but about="something" does work.  Unqualified RDF is deprecated according
to the RDF validator at W3C.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an unqualified RDF datasource.
2. Load it in a tree control.
(It works.)

1. Create a qualified RDF datasource.
2. Load it in a tree control.
(It doesn't work.)
Actual Results:  
See below steps to reproduce.

Expected Results:  
Qualified RDF should work.

Comment 1

[Chase Tingley]

WFM cvs trunk linux -- I've got test datasources using qualified RDF
properties that work fine.
Please attach the RDF/XUL combo that's giving you trouble.

Comment 2

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

I don't think anyone is going to work on this given the plan to remove the XUL "tree" widget (bug 1446335).