325822 - Documents should default to being data documents

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sicking and I were talking about this....

We feel that the fact that documents created via DOMImplementation are not data until you document.load() into them is weird.  The proposal we have is:

1)  All (XML?) documents start off as data at construction time.
2)  Calling StartDocumentLoad toggles the state of the document as needed.
3)  XMLDocument::Load just uses the current state, whatever it is.
4)  There is no api other than StartDocumentLoad to control data/nondata state
    for now.

Thoughts?  I can do this if we think it's the right approach.  The behavior for document.load into "live" (in a docshell) documents will change, but I think that's what we want...

(Note to self: logic in XMLDocument::StartDocumentLoad needs to be fixed to handle repeated calls to that method -- some booleans are set to true only, never false, right now).

Comment 1

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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