279869 - error loading xslt stylesheelt which uses the document('') function to refer to the stylesheet

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 205778

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Stefan Eissing]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

We server XML files with XSL stylesheet instruction. The stylesheet uses the
document('') call to refer to itself on selection, like this:

<data:numbers>
  ...
</data:numbers>
<xsl:variable name="test" select="document('')/*/data:numbers" />

Observation: Firefox seems to load this page endlessly, becoming unresponsive in
the process. The same page loads quickly and flawlessly on a Windows box using IE.

Assumption: the implementation of the document() function has no shortcut for
the empty URI reference and resolves '' to the URI of the stylesheet and tries
to load that stylesheet - which leeds to an endless recursion.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Use xml with stylesheet with documnet function to itself as decrivbed above.
Loading the stylesheet directly works since the document() function is then not
executed.
Actual Results:  
Application hanging.


Behaviour is the same on OS X and Win2k.

Comment 1

[Julian Reschke]

Same behaviour on W2K.

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 205778 ***

Comment 3

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Oh, and please remember to reassign to default owner when changing component.
Otherwise it's easy to miss the bug since bugzilla doesn't allow you to
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