287910 - XML initializer with single processing instruction is not recognized

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257679

(Rhino Graveyard :: E4X, defect)

Description

[Martin Honnen]

The section 11.1.4 XML Initialiser in the E4X specification says:

"An XML initialiser is an expression describing the initialization of an XML
object, written in a form of a literal. It may specify an XML element, an XML
comment, an XML PI, or a CDATA section using ordinary XML syntax."

That suggests to me that it should possible to write an XML initializer
representing a single processing instruction for instance. And indeed the test case

XML.ignoreProcessingInstructions = false;
print("XML.ignoreProcessingInstructions: " + XML.ignoreProcessingInstructions);
var pi = <?process Kibology="on"?>;
if (pi) {
  print('pi.nodeKind(): ' + pi.nodeKind());
}
else {
  print('pi === undefined: ' + (pi === undefined));
}

is parsed and executed flawlessly with Spidermonkey:

js> load('mozillaBugs/e4x/singleProcessingInstruction1.js');
XML.ignoreProcessingInstructions: false
pi.nodeKind(): processing-instruction


With Rhino however parsing gives syntax errors:

Rhino 1.6 release 1 2004 11 30
js> load('mozillaBugs/e4x/singleProcessingInstruction1.js');
js: "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All
Users\Dokumente\javascript\mozillaBugs\e4x\singleProcessingInstruction1.js",
line 5: syntax error
js:   print('pi.nodeKind(): ' + pi.nodeKind());
js: ..........................................^
js: "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All
Users\Dokumente\javascript\mozillaBugs\e4x\singleProcessingInstruction1.js",
line 6: syntax error
js: }
js: ^
js: "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\All
Users\Dokumente\javascript\mozillaBugs\e4x\singleProcessingInstruction1.js",
line 1: Compilation produced 2 syntax errors.

If the Spidermonkey behaviour is correct then Rhino has a bug.

Comment 1

[Martin Honnen]

Attachment: test case to be run in Rhino or Spidermonkey shell

Comment 2

[Igor Bukanov]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257679 ***