236994 - xbl script element does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58757

(Core :: XBL, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.05  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Regardless of position in an xbl document, and regardless of whether script
is defined inline or by relative URL, functions declared in the script element cannot be called.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an xbl document
2.add the following code anywhere in the document.
<script id="myScript" type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[
alert("The Script has been found");
function doStuff()
{
 alert("stuff done");
}
]]>
</script>
3. in the constructor for a binding in that document, add the line:
doStuff();
4. attach the binding to an element in the browser

Actual Results:  
an error message appears:
ReferenceError: doStuff is not defined

Expected Results:  
the script should have been "evaluated the first time a binding in the XBL file is attached to a bound element in the document".
This means that on binding, two alerts should appear, first "The Script has been found", when the binding attaches, then "stuff done" when the binding's constructor is called.

see: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xbl/xbl.html#script

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The spec and what we implement are rather unrelated... (and the spec is in the
process of being updated).

In any case, this has just not been implemented yet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58757 ***