299274 - Invalid 'model=' attribute in form control not processed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280366

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, defect)

Description

[Stephen Pride]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050509 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050509 Firefox/1.0.4

If a model="" attribute in a form control points to a non-existent <model>, the
processor does not catch the problem.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stephen Pride]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[Allan Beaufour]

The reason it's not throwing an exception is that there's no ref attribute on
the input, so we do not actually use it for anything. Adding fx. ref="x" to the
input, triggers the exception.

Do we really want to support this? It seems like unnecessary work.

Comment 3

[aaronr]

I agree that it isn't probably ever going to be a problem in the wild and it is
taking the spec a little literally, but the testsuite tests for it and Novell,
formsPlayer and XSmiles all pass the test.

Comment 4

[Allan Beaufour]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I agree that it isn't probably ever going to be a problem in the wild and it is
> taking the spec a little literally, but the testsuite tests for it and Novell,
> formsPlayer and XSmiles all pass the test.

Grrr. I'll sent Kevin a flame-mail then ;-)

Comment 5

[Allan Beaufour]

This is related to bug 280366, and will probably be fixed there.

Comment 6

[Allan Beaufour]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 280366 ***