451147 - Forms in XHTML documents produced by XSLT with same-document actions fail to submit

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: XSLT, defect)

Description

[David Eckel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

When a form such as <form action="">...</form> is present in an XHTML document generated by XSLT, the page fails to create a GET or a POST request to the current page when submitted. The submit DOM event is fired, but no HTTP request is made. Note that this is a separate issue from bug 275689 because the form fails to submit at all, as opposed to submitting to an incorrect URI. Standalone XHTML pages, HTML pages, and HTML pages produced by XSLT are unaffected by this bug, making it seem similar to bug 230214.

Fragment links, such as "#frag", do cause the form to generate an HTTP request when submitted. HTML base and xml:base do not affect the form when the action is "". Same-document URIs in anchor tags do trigger an HTTP request in XSLT documents produced by XSLT.

The XSLT->XHTML test case (exhibits bug) and standalone XHTML test case (not affected by bug) are attached. A summary of several test cases is as follows:

Doctype                MIME type             Using XSLT? Form submits?

XHTML 1.0 Transitional application/xhtml+xml No          Yes
XHTML 1.0 Transitional text/xml              No          No
XHTML 1.0 Transitional text/html             No          Yes
XHTML 1.0 Transitional application/xhtml+xml Yes         No
XHTML 1.0 Transitional text/xml              Yes         No
XHTML 1.0 Transitional text/html             Yes         Yes
HTML 4.01 Strict       text/html             No          Yes
HTML 4.01 Strict       text/html             Yes         Yes

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[David Eckel]

Attachment: Self-styling XSLT stylesheet that produces XHTML.

Comment 2

[David Eckel]

Attachment: XHTML document that does not use XSLT.