253670 - Unable to access HTML Document from SVG Document

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Radha Kameswari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040725
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040725

I have embedded SVG in HTML using <embed name="e1" src="sample.svg">
In sample.svg file,there is onLoad event defined .
<svg id="SVG1' onload="onLoad(evt) ">
<script type="text/ecmascript" xlink:href="f1.js"> </script></svg>

In f1.js file, I used 'evt.target.getOwnerDocument' method to access SVGDocument
refernce.
But no method is available to access HTML Document object from SVG Document.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I still think that all Document objects should implement (or be castable to) all 
the various Document types. It doesn't make sense to limit the Document to what 
the root namespace (or worse, the MIME type) happens to be, especially in a 
world of compound documents and mixed namespaces.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Ian, I think you misunderstood comment 0.  As I understand, reporter is trying
to get at the ownerDocument of the <embed> from code running in the document
loaded by the <embed>.

This can in fact be done by using the window.parent chain, no?

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Oh, indeed, my bad.

Yeah, the event target should be the <svg> element, no the embed, so it is 
correct that you wouldn't get to the owner doc that way. window.parent seems to 
be the right chain.

INVALID?

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Marking INVALID.

I'm surprised you managed to conduct this test Radha since <embed> can't be used
for SVG content (see bug 240408).