410720 - Javascript document.evaluate isn't working with alerts.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[Johan Bergman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

When excecutiting the following Javascript code, no alert shows up. And it doesn't throw any errors either:

alert( document.evaluate('//option', document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, DOMObject) );

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a script with contents:
alert( document.evaluate('//option', document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, DOMObject) );
Actual Results:  
No alert or error.

Expected Results:  
Alert or at least a kind of error.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Baron]

This bug is NOT FIXED.
-> UNCO

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010204 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Works fine for me if I replace |DOMObject| with |document.body|.  I get an alert saying [object XPathResult].

Comment 3

[Philip Chee]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122605 Minefield/3.0b3pre

javascript:alert( document.evaluate('//option', document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,DOMObject) );

Error: DOMObject is not defined
Source file: javascript:alert(%20document.evaluate('//option',%20document,%20null,%20XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,DOMObject)%20);
Line: 1

javascript:alert( document.evaluate('//option', document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE,document.body) );

I get an alert saying [object XPathResult]

So working as designed.