346886 - Various issues when using xslt to render html

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 230214

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[Ruvim Pinka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Firefox/1.5.0.5

There malformed rendering of a dynamicly added elements, when document created from XML by XSLT.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open test.xml by above url

Actual Results:  
test 1test 2

Expected Results:  
test 1
test 2


Please, see a files at http://www.forth.org.ru/~ruvim/test/FF/html-xsl/DOM/
The xsl stylesheet simply output a test.html document:
<xsl:template match="/" >
  <xsl:copy-of select="document('test.html')" />
</xsl:template>
So, we can compare results by open test.html and test.xml.

It seems, there general problem for several bugs. I have found following similar bugs, which yet exist (I have sured): #270223, #303557, #315747, #335622, #315799.

Comment 1

[Ruvim Pinka]

Test an auto link: Bug 346886

Comment 2

[Ruvim Pinka]

A list of similar bugs:
Bug 270223 
Bug 303557
Bug 315747
Bug 315799
Bug 335622

Comment 3

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

Please attach the testcase to this bug so that it doesn't get lost if the site changes.

Comment 4

[Ruvim Pinka]

Attachment: HTML-page with javascript to create elements dynamicly

Comment 5

[Ruvim Pinka]

Attachment: XSLT stylesheet, returns a copy of test.html (by attachment id)

Comment 6

[Ruvim Pinka]

Attachment: Empty xml document with reference to above XSLT stylesheet

Comment 7

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

The problem is that you're trying to load a HTML document using document(). document() only supports loading of XML documents.

Comment 8

[Ruvim Pinka]

(In reply to comment #7)
> The problem is that you're trying to load a HTML document using document().
No.  There is an XML document. Please, see a source of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=233753

Comment 9

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

Anything sent as 'text/html' is interpreted as HTML, not XML. I still see the issue even after fixing that though.

Comment 10

[Peter Van der Beken [:peterv]]

I bet the problem is the createElement calls. We load the document as pure XML, and so createElement creates elements in the null namespace, not in the XHTML namespace. I'd say this is INVALID or WONTFIX, you can easily use createElementNS with the XHTML namespace.

Comment 11

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

The issue here is that test.html looks like an xhtml document, but is served using 'text/html'. This means that when test.html is loaded directly we treat it as a HTML document and so createElement('p') works. However when the document is loaded using XSLT it is treated as XML (or specifically XHTML) and so you need to call createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'p').

Alternatively you could remove the xmlns attribute from test.html which would put it in the null namespace when loaded by XSLT making the XSLT create a HTML document.

All this is per spec btw.


However, firefox does let you call createElement('p') in a real XHTML document, so the testcase should ideally work because of that. However due to bug 230214 it does not. So marking a duplicate of that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230214 ***