297250 - getElementById returns null for XMLHttpRequest loaded elements outside of the html namespace

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Will Holcomb]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5

When a document is loaded using a XMLHttpRequest and the namespace on the
element is something other than the XHTML namespace, the function
request.responseXML.getElementById(id) returns null.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the test page
2. Hit the "Go" button
3. Note that the return for "testscripttwo" is null



Expected Results:  
getElementById should return the element with the given id regardless of whether
it is in the HTML namespace or not.

Comment 1

[Will Holcomb]

Attachment: testcase referred to in the initial report

Goes through a couple different files and for each it requests the file via
XMLHttpRequest, gets an id from an element by going through the document tree
then attempts to request that same element using the id in getElementById. For
elements in the xhtml namespace it works, for others it returns null.

Comment 2

[Will Holcomb]

Attachment: replacement for the original posting of testcase which lacked base href

Original posting lacked a base href and so the stylesheets didn't load making
it unreadable.

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

You need to declare an attribute of type ID in a DTD.