36870 - Can't put entity refs into nodes

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 9850

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[J David Eisenberg]

If you create a text node with the contents "español", the entity
reference is not expanded when you dynamically place it into a document.
[That's e-s-p-ampersand-ntilde-semicolon-o-l above, in case Bugzilla _does_
expand the reference.

The test URL shows three attempts to do it; the last two (using CDATASection and
EntityReference) give "not supported" errors in the JavaScript console.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Neither createTextNode nor (and especially not) createCDATASection should expand

entity references. The DOM spec days HTML DOM implemetations don't need to

support createEntityReference() but IMO we should support that, if we don't it's

impossible to dynamically create entity references.

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

This bug has been marked "future" because the original netscape engineer working

on this is over-burdened. If you feel this is an error, that you or another

known resource will be working on this bug,or if it blocks your work in some way

-- please attach your concern to the bug for reconsideration.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

We already have a bug on createEntityReference

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9850 ***