277323 - DOM Nodes viewer: Show node in source code

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Other Applications :: DOM Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

It'd be rather useful to be able to show where in a document's source code a
node resides.

Current thinking:  Add a context menu item for dom.xul labeled, "Show node in
source code".  This would reach into a window Inspector controls (we'd create it
if needed), serialize the node's owner document and display it, and then
select/highlight the node's serialized content within that new window.

We have to make sure we highlight the right node (where there may be another
node earlier in the document which has identical content, pretty easy to have
happen with whitespace text nodes), so some DOM advice would be helpful (XPath?).

We already have Copy XML, so that might make it easier.

Feedback welcomed.

Comment 1

[timeless]

maybe like view selection source?

Comment 2

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Reassigning DOM-I bugs which have stagnated in my buglist back to default owner.  Hopefully someone will pick up some of these bugs and work on them.  I'll continue to follow them.

Comment 3

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Instead of showing the complete source and highlighting the code in another window, I think it would be more useful to simply serialize the currently selected node and display on the right side as another view (like what's currently done with text nodes). Also like text nodes, we could allow editing of the source code (yay) by serializing the result if changed and replacing the node.

-We'd have to handle malformed code
-Editing wouldn't work (and viewing would suck) if XMLExtras wasn't available.
-We would lose any events or JavaScript set on the node we replace. Perhaps we could try to find the bits that changed rather than replace everything?

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023

Comment 5

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Bulk close. This component is no longer supported or maintained.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499023